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Sep 4, 2016 · Clement Attlee is, as John Bew explains in his exemplary biography, Labour’s unlikeliest of heroes. He was remarkably unremarkable. He hailed from the suburbs and returned to the suburbs; the ...
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee. Sitter in 49 portraits. In 1922, Attlee was elected Labour MP for Limehouse, and in 1935 he became leader of the Labour Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister under Winston Churchill in the coalition wartime Government in 1940-5. In the 1945 election, Labour held its first overall majority in the ...
London, 8 Oct. 1967) British; Prime Minister 1945–51; Earl 1955 Clement Attlee's government (1945–51) is widely regarded as Labour's most successful government. The administration decisively shaped post-war Britain, establishing the policies for full employment, the welfare state, mixed economy, and passage from the British Empire to ...
Clement Richard Attlee was born in Putney, London on 3 January 1883, the seventh of eight children. His father was a solicitor, and Attlee described the family as ‘happy and united’. Educated first at home by his mother, he later went to schools in Hertfordshire, and then to University College, Oxford, where he studied history.
Clement Attlee. You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt. Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee KG OM CH FRS PC (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951. Coming from an upper middle class background, Attlee was converted to socialism through working in ...
Clement Richard Attlee, 1. baron Attlee ( Putney, London, 3. siječnja 1883. – London, 8. listopada 1967.) je bio premijer Ujedinjenog Kraljevstva od 1945. do 1951. Attleeovi laburisti su uvjerljivo porazili Chruchilla koji je vodio Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo tijekom Drugog svjetskog rata. Attlee je bio prvi laburistički ministar koji je ...
Jul 23, 2020 · Clement Attlee was not a physically imposing figure, he wasn’t filled with Churchill’s wit and ability to ‘turn a phrase’, but in 1945 he delivered one of Labour’s largest election victories. He built a cabinet of powerful figures and managed to harness them to build some of the most enduring elements of British life and key ...
