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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...