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It is surely Clement Attlee’s post-war Labour government from 1945 to 1951. When elected in July 1945, the government did ...
Deputy PM and Housing Secretary Angela Rayner writes for The Mirror about Labour's Spending Review plans - and the significance of a £39billion investment in affordable housing ...
Why Keir Starmer is more like Clement Attlee than you think. The Labour prime minister has been compared to a number of previous leaders, but as a steely PM who diverts spending on welfare to ...
But in other respects Clement Attlee is an interesting hero and what Keir Starmer choses to highlight about him is telling. Attlee spent much of his career in the shadow of a much more dynamic and ...
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 ...
Like many another middle-class British family back in the '30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem's duties ...
Clement Attlee’s socioeconomic policies, and how they impacted post-war England In the aftermath of WW2 Britain and her colonies were left in utter ruin; aerial bombardment had reduced cities to ...
May 22, 2024 at 6:26pm BST. The last general election held in July saw a Labour landslide in which Clement Attlee swept to power to oust Winston Churchill after the end of Second World War ...
In this episode - Clement Attlee's family car. While he was campaigning for the 1945 election, Clement Attlee travelled around the country in his family car, driven by his beloved wife, Vi.