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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 ...

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 hostilities in Europe. The 1945 ...

The post-war Atlee government created the welfare state with the best of intentions. But all it did was store up trouble for the future.

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 ...

Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister credited with creating the welfare state.

In his Attlee Foundation lecture delivered at Queen Mary University of London, Jon Davis explores the ambiguous reputation of Britain’s first post-war prime minister and pays tribute to his own ...

Big Ben was striking 11 and some Labor M.P.s were still straggling into the House of Commons committee room when Clement Attlee rose from his place and said in his most curt, acid-drop manner: ...

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 ...

The titular promise is of a ‘New Jerusalem,’ a cradle-to-grave welfare state utopia that Attlee and his colleagues believed a country beleaguered and broken by war deserved. Yet then as now ...