Clement Attlee and his wife Violet wave to crowds in London on 26 July 1945 – the day he became prime minister (Getty) I am the first in my family to stay on for A-levels, let alone anything else.

Almost all of his contemporaries have faded into history. ... For one thing, it was Clement Attlee’s Labour government, and not Churchill, who took Britain into the ECHR in 1950.

History might hold the answer on x (opens in a new window) ... Clement Attlee’s 1945 administration, which defeated Winston Churchill’s Tories and created the modern welfare state.

With the war in Europe at an end, Churchill and Attlee became fierce election rivals.

Lord Attlee, the former Clement Attlee, leader of the Labor Party between 1936 and 1951 and Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951, died here last night, aged 84.

Richard Toye, professor of history and the University of Exeter, warns Keir Starmer he must learn important lessons from Clement Attlee. Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty. Skip ...

77 years ago (1946) We reported Clement Attlee's speech to the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in London. Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.

Attlee — for better or worse — led the most left-wing government in British history. New Labour it was not. Can Keir Starmer keep things tight with his powerful team?

Seventy-five years ago, Britain was still recovering from the Second World War. Many goods were still rationed, but Clement Attlee's Labour government had introduced long-lasting changes to ...

Margaret Thatcher and Clement Attlee have been ranked as the greatest prime ministers of the 20th century by a historian in BBC History Magazine. Giving the leaders points from zero to five, Francis ...

Announcer: Some prominent persons passed away in 1967, among them German Statesman Konrad Adenauer, former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, actress Jayne Mansfield, poet Carl Sandburg, Cuban ...

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 ...