Starmer couldn't be clearer: Britain must prepare for war To spend 3% of GDP on defence, the PM needs to find an extra £13bn. That's difficult, especially when the government could U-turn on some ...

Clement Attlee was the ... The UK's armed forces must move to "war-fighting readiness" over the coming years, the UK faces a "more serious and immediate" threat than anytime since the Cold War, ...

A conference session including Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Joseph Stalin, ... Because of the deepening Cold War, Truman never saw Stalin again. Monday, August 6, ...

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 ...

Why Keir Starmer is more like Clement Attlee than you ... leading to a new arms race and the start of the Cold War. Attlee and Bevin responded in part by facilitating the creation of Nato in ...

Rachel Reeves should take a leaf out of Clement Attlee's book and fund a complete rearmament ... and the Cold War are testament to the fact that decisions made at those times to rearm were ...

Clement Attlee, Britain’s prime minister, ... As the cold-war historian John Lewis Gaddis has argued, “influence, in democratic alliances, flows in multiple directions: ...

Harry S. Truman (middle) with British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (left) and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference (July 17 to August 2, 1945). Public Domain. The 1947 Truman Doctrine was crucial ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer told MPs on Tuesday that Britain was confronting a “world where everything has changed ...

I think the biggest mistake made by the British government was made with the best of intentions. It was the post-war Clem Attlee government that had swept to power at war’s end, the electorate having ...

The idiosyncrasies of the British government being what they were in 1945, Colville, who had served Churchill as a private secretary throughout the Second World War, became one of Clement Attlee ...

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: ...