Attlee's government proved itself to be a radical reforming administration.

This ideology influenced the policies of the British Labour Party during Clement Attlee's administration.

Shinwell then served in Clement Attlee's government after the Labour victory in 1945 as Minister of Fuel & Power, and he presided over the nationalisation of the mining industry.

Attlee's government faced constant hostility from Conservative sections of society, including the Conservative press.

St-Laurent was an early supporter of British Prime Minister Clement Attlee's proposal to transform the British Commonwealth from a club of white dominions into a multi-racial partnership.

" Clement Attlee's biographer argued that this policy " contributed enormously to the defeat of childhood illnesses resulting from bad diet.

Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell, CBE ( 9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963 ) was a British Labour politician, who held Cabinet office in Clement Attlee's governments, and was the Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963.

The Act was part of the nationalisation agenda of Clement Attlee's Labour government, and took effect from 1 January 1948.

He was the second son of Lewis Silkin ( afterwards Baron Silkin ), a Labour Member of Parliament ( MP ) and a minister in Clement Attlee's Cabinet from 1945 to 1950.

Its purpose was to consider possible legislation to give statutory effect to Prime Minister Clement Attlee's assurance that Northem Ireland's constitutional position would not be prejudiced by the Republic of Ireland Act by which Ireland had decided to leave the British Commonwealth and any other possible consequences for Northern Ireland arising from the Irish decision.

The decision not to award a medal for all members of Bomber Command occurred during the short gap between the wartime coalition and Attlee's Labour Government, whilst Churchill was still P. M.

Winston Churchill, who had been leader of the wartime coalition government, suffered a surprising landslide defeat to Clement Attlee's Labour party in 1945 elections.

Thus, the responsibility for instituting a new and comprehensive National Health Service, as well as tackling the country's severe post-war housing shortage, fell to the youngest member of Attlee's Cabinet in his first ministerial position.

Despite these problems, one of the main achievements of Attlee's government was the maintenance of near full employment.

In foreign affairs, Attlee's cabinet was concerned with four issues: postwar Europe, the onset of the cold war, the establishment of the United Nations, and decolonisation.

Attlee's Foreign Secretary, the former trade union leader Ernest Bevin, was passionately anti-communist, based largely on his experience of fighting communist influence in the trade union movement.

One is a bust of dockworkers ' trade unionist, founder of the Transport & General Workers Union, Churchill's Minister of Labour during WWII and Attlee's Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin.

Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

Attlee's government also carried out their manifesto commitment for nationalisation of basic industries and public utilities.

Despite these achievements, Attlee's government failed to introduce the comprehensive education for which many socialists had hoped ( as a means of making the educational system less meritoric ).

Attlee's government was responsible for the first significant decolonisation of part of the British Empire – India.

Although Attlee's second government was less radical than the first, it oversaw the passage of a number of reforms relating to issues such as industry in development areas, the restoration of land which had been devastated by ironstone pollution, and river pollution.

It was Attlee's government that decided Britain should have an independent atomic weapons programme, and work began on it in 1947.

* October 26 – Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government after six years in power.

Coal mining had been nationalised by Clement Attlee's Labour government in 1947 and was in 1984 managed by the National Coal Board ( NCB ) under Ian MacGregor and, as in most of Europe, was heavily subsidised.

The post was held by the Prime Minister of the day until Clement Attlee's government introduced the Ministry of Defence Act of 1946.

Reid argued that the social agenda of Clement Attlee's government was abandoned by Thatcher and not revived by New Labour.

In 1945 he became Secretary of State for Air in Clement Attlee's Labour government, a position he held until October 1946.

After the Labour landslide election victory of 1945, Bevan joined Clement Attlee's government and formally left the paper, leaving Mullally and Evelyn Anderson as joint editors, with Foot playing Bevan's role of political director.

Once in Parliament, Gordon Walker was promoted rapidly through the ranks of Clement Attlee's Labour government.

However, it was believed that because Clement Attlee's Labour government had a clear mandate to deliver the policies of nationalisation and welfare state measures, the House of Lords should not oppose such legislation at second reading.

The British Transport Commission ( BTC ) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport in Great Britain ( Northern Ireland had the separate Ulster Transport Authority ).

Described as the " most momentous piece of legislation in the field of railway law to have been enacted since the Railway and Canal Traffic Act 1854 ", it was passed by Harold Macmillan's Conservative government to dissolve the British Transport Commission ( BTC ), which had been established by Clement Attlee's Labour government in 1947 to oversee railways, canals and road freight transport.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee's government decided that Britain required the atomic bomb to maintain its position in world politics.

Wilson's was the second attempt at nationalisation, Clement Attlee's Iron and Steel Corporation of Great Britain having been largely privatised by the Conservative governments of the 1950s.

Attlee's unsought service on the Commission equipped him with a thorough exposure to India and many of its political leaders.

Attlee's first Health Secretary, Aneurin Bevan, fought against the general disapproval of the medical establishment by creating the British National Health Service, a publicly funded healthcare system offering treatment free at the point of use.

After Stalin took political control of most of Eastern Europe and began to subvert other governments in the Balkans, Attlee's and Bevin's worst fears of Soviet intentions were realized.

In a crucial contribution to the economic stability of post-War Europe, Attlee's cabinet was instrumental in promoting the American Marshall Plan for the economic recovery of Europe.

Attlee's short list of Resignation Honours announced in November 1951 included an Earldom for William Jowitt, Lord Chancellor.

It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee.

Attlee's modesty and quiet manner hid a great deal that has only come to light with historical reappraisal.

Bevin, Attlee's Foreign Secretary, famously stated that " We've got to have it and it's got to have a bloody Union Jack on it.

By then Wilson was the last surviving member of Attlee's cabinet and the unveiling of the statue would be the last public appearance by Wilson, who was by then in the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease and who died in May 1995 after a decade of ill health.

* Lord Beginner's song " General Election " was inspired by Attlee's victory in the 1950 British general election.