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Mar 11, 2014 · Clement Attlee (The National Archives reference INF 14/19) It is difficult to envisage a twenty-first century politician passing up the opportunity to promote their ‘message’. Even privately, ministerial colleagues found Attlee difficult to engage with; one of the few things he was willing to actually talk about was cricket.
Clement Earl Attlee (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was Britain’s first post-war Prime Minister (1945-51), winning a landslide for Labour, helping to usher in a new era of British Politics. Attlee’s Labour Government introduced sweeping reforms such as nationalisation of major industries, the extension of the Welfare State and the introduction of the […]
Attlee went on to win a narrow majority of five seats at the 1950 general election, forming the second Attlee ministry. Just twenty months after that election, Attlee called a new election for 25 October 1951 in an attempt to gain a larger majority, but was narrowly defeated by the Conservative Party , sending Labour into a 13-year spell in ...
Clement Attlee was the leader who did the most to shape Britain after the Second World War. During his premiership the National Health Service was created. His government also legislated for the modern system of National Insurance, the National Parks system, and the New Towns Act. Abroad, Attlee began decolonisation, while binding the UK into NATO.
Jan 2, 2018 · Attlee was an unprepossessing man. “A modest man with much to be modest about,” Winston Churchill said of him once. Attlee had a modest mustache and came from a modest family, and had a modest ...
Clement Attlee 1883-1967 Prime Minister 1945-1951 for twenty years leader of the Labour Party. He was born on 3rd January 1883 in London, a son of Henry and his wife Ellen (Watson). Educated at Haileybury College and Oxford university he went on to become a lawyer. In the poorer parts of London he did social work at a boys club and became ...
Clement Attlee. Clement Attlee (n. 3 ianuarie 1883, d. 8 octombrie 1967) a fost un politician laburist britanic, prim-ministru al Marii Britanii între 1945 și 1951 . S-a născut la Londra și a studiat la Universitatea din Oxford. A devenit profesor la Universitatea din Londra în 1913 . Mai târziu a luptat în armata Marii Britanii în ...
