Clement Attlee is going to fire some of his ministers. For both it would be a painful business. For him, it would mean the first break in the group of old friends and party comrades with whom he ...
Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s arrival in Washington to visit the President did not stir the world, nor the U.S., nor even the capital press corps. Yet mild Mr. Attlee’s-journey to the U.S.—his ...
John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (London: Riverrun, 2016), 668 pp., $30.00. CLEMENT ATTLEE was blessed by good fortune. Wounded at Gallipoli, he survived the military disaster while many ...
Clement Attlee was the most consistently underestimated politician of modern times. Bald, mustachioed, unassuming, quiet, as averse to grandiloquence and grandstanding as Churchill was addicted to ...
On the first anniversary of Keir Starmer’s general election win, there will no doubt be much comment about what his government has achieved in its first year – and, more likely, where it has fallen ...
Both elections resulted in the election of resolute and determined prime ministers with radical agendas: Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher. Just as Mrs Thatcher transformed the nature of British ...
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