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2 days ago · It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee. The third earl (a member of the Conservative Party) retained his seat in the Lords as one of the hereditary peers to remain under an amendment to Labour's House of Lords Act 1999.
4 days ago · Everyone emerged from the nightmare of war wanting change. They even regretfully got rid of the charismatic man who had kept them going during the war with his superb rhetoric, and replaced him with the seemingly meek, unflashy Clement Attlee.
2 days ago · The next big landslide defeat for the Tories was 1945, when Clement Attlee pulled off a shock routing of Sir Winston Churchill in the first general election after the war. Don't miss...
1 day ago · 1945: The Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee, won an unexpected landslide victory in the general election. 1948: Clement Attlee’s Labour government introduced the National Health Service. 1950: The Law of Return was passed, guaranteeing all Jews the right to live in Israel. 1954: The BBC broadcast its first television news bulletin.
2 days ago · The first was Sir Robert Walpole taking office on 3 April 1721. ... Clement Attlee (26 July 1945-26 October 1951) ... The 2nd Earl of Liverpool, ...
3 days ago · Thursday's vote is Britain's first July election since 1945, when Labour under Clement Attlee defeated the Conservatives of World War II leader Winston Churchill, ushering in a period of...
3 days ago · Britain's political leaders made a frantic push for votes late Wednesday in the last hours of an election campaign expected to return a Labour government after 14 years of Conservative rule.The...
