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Abroad, Attlee began decolonisation, while binding the UK into NATO. Many consider him the greatest of Britain’s Prime Ministers. Clement Attlee was born in a middle-class family in Putney. He was educated at Haileybury and University College, Oxford. He graduated in 1904, and then trained as a barrister at the Inner Temple, being called to ...
May 25, 2013 · This is a lively account of high politics in Britain during the Second World War, focusing on Clement Attlee’s rise to, and consolidation of, power. Attlee led Labour into the wartime coalition in 1940, becoming deputy prime minister in 1942 and, in 1945, the first prime minister of a majority Labour government.
- Paul Corthorn
- 2013
Labour 1945 to 1951. Clement Attlee was leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955, and served as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951. As Prime Minister, he enlarged and improved social ...
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May 6, 2021 · Born into a comfortable family in Putney, Attlee was drawn to social work in the East End of London and developed his socialist convictions through his experiences there. First elected as an MP in 1922, he was leader of his party by 1935, and took Labour into the wartime coalition with Churchill. And then, of course, he led his party to victory ...
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Mar 29, 2017 · In many ways we still live in a world of Attlee’s creation. His government of 1945-51 was the most radical in history, and gave Britain the NHS, National Insurance, NATO and the atomic bomb. Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee by Walter Stoneman, 1930. NPG x163783. National Portrait Gallery.
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 […]
Clement Attlee. Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC (January 3, 1883 – October 8, 1967) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from 1945 to 1951, having served under the first Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald in the early 1920s, and as Churchill's deputy during World War II.
