How do you explain 1962-3, which occurred when we had a Conservative
government?

The Brezhnev-era was just beginning in the Soviet Union, beginning what
many elderly Russians and Ukrainians still refer to as the "best era"
for life in the old Soviet Union. Of course, his long rule saw an
almost complete alleviation of poverty and homelessness from Moscow
right down to Tashkent. Capitalist Britain, by comparison, now, in the
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY(!), STILL retains an unusually large homeless
"population", who have to endure its rain on top of Prince Harry's
Nazism, Tony Blair's New "Labour", and endless migrants from unsocial
countries stealing European resources.

D.