Original sentence: However, towards the end of the 1940s, he increasingly came to be perceived as out-of-touch by the general electorate, in part because of his refusal to phase out many wartime restrictions and his failed attempt to nationalise the banks
Edited sentence: However, towards the end of the 1940s, he increasingly came to be perceived as out-of-touch and left-leaning by the general electorate, in part because of his refusal to phase out many wartime restrictions and his failed attempt to nationalise the banks