If Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister credited with creating the welfare state after the end of the Second World ...

Instead of funding their armies, they invested in the welfare state and public services instead. As Clement Attlee became the ...

The two critical general elections which shaped the second half of the 20th century were those of 1945 and 1979.

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 ...

Starmer’s first year as prime minister has been characterised by a series of U-turns, following rebellion within his own ranks. But it is the following day, Saturday 5 July, that will mark a far more ...

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 ...

CLEMENT ATTLEE refused to take Britain into the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)- the precursor to the EU - in the Fifties, as the former Prime Minister believed the country was not ...

Clement Attlee, the Labour prime minister whose government founded the welfare state, looked after a child refugee who escaped from the Nazis in the months leading up to the second World War, the ...

Lord Attlee, who as Labour Prime Minister launched Britain’s welfare state and gave independence to India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon, was stated on September 20 to be very ill.

On 3rd August 1945 at 10.45am, newly victorious Labour MPs assembled in Westminster to take their oath of allegiance. Clement Attlee, the new prime minister whose party had just won by a landslide, ...