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Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
May 25, 2024 · Clement Attlee, British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51). He presided over the establishment of the welfare state in Great Britain and the granting of independence to India, the most important step in the conversion of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations.
Mar 29, 2017 · Here was a man born in the governing class who devoted his life to the service of the poor, who was carried off the battlefield three times in the First World War, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Churchill as Britain’s darkest moment, and then triumphed over him at the general election of 1945.
Clement Attlee was leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955, and served as Britain’s Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951.
3 days ago · Attlee’s response to a threadbare economy was to find new ways of managing the country’s limited resources to meet the priorities of reconstruction. Central to Labour’s approach, controversial as it was at times, was the continuation of the democratic and social control of resources applied in the war years. From 1939, the shape of ...
May 6, 2021 · Clement Attlee: Labour's postwar leader. Labour’s postwar leader Clement Attlee presided over the most consequential raft of legislation in modern British history. Charlotte Lydia Riley provides a brief history of his life and legacy. Published: May 6, 2021 at 2:48 PM.
Clement Attlee was the leader who did the most to shape Britain after the Second World War. During his premiership the National Health Service was created. His government also legislated for the modern system of National Insurance, the National Parks system, and the New Towns Act.
