But it is the following day, this Saturday, 5 July, that will mark a far more consequential anniversary: the general election of 1945, which – after a count lasting several weeks – made Clement Attlee ...

Clement Attlee News from United Press International. When Queen Elizabeth II agreed to suspend Parliament, she gave British Prime Minister Boris Johnson what he wanted.

Attlee unseated Churchill as Prime Minister. Churchill was reelected in 1951, during which the Conservative Party accepted the Labour Party’s newly created welfare system.

Clement Attlee, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s post-war leaders. Surveys for Britain’s best prime minister usually ...

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 ...

Clement Attlee and his wife Violet wave to crowds in London on 26 July 1945 – the day he became prime minister (Getty) My great stroke of professional fortune came in my final undergraduate year ...

Wm. Roger Louis reviews “Clement Attlee: ... serving as deputy prime minister during World War II and then prime minister from 1945 to 1951. Attlee appeared to be such an ordinary man that it ...

Former British prime minister Clement Attlee hosted a Jewish child refugee in his home for four months in the run-up to the Second World War and never publicly spoke about it, The Guardian ...

TO join the current Press readers’ discussion on British Prime Ministers, best and worst and in between, may I propose Clement Attlee, of whom my dad was an admirer and so is his son, as best ...