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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.
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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.
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.
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.
He was also Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs in Attlee's first cabinet, directing the transformation of the Dominion Affairs Office into the Office of Commonwealth Relations and playing an instrumental role in Labour's early anti-imperialist policies and the strengthening of the British Commonwealth.
Attlee's and Health
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.
* Aneurin Bevan, Clement Attlee's Health Minister
Attlee's ministry oversaw the nationalisation of basic industries such as coal mining and the steel industry, and for the creation of the state-owned British Railways while Health Minister Nye Bevan was responsible for the establishment of the National Health Service in 1948.
Attlee's and Secretary
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.
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.
In 1945 he became Secretary of State for Air in Clement Attlee's Labour government, a position he held until October 1946.
He was a junior minister in Clement Attlee's governments, being Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs ( 1946 – 47 ), Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations ( 1947 ) and Secretary for Overseas Trade at the Board of Trade ( 1947 – 51 ).
With Labour's victory in the general election of July 1945, Lawson was appointed Secretary of State for War, with a seat in Attlee's Cabinet.
In opposition to Clement Attlee's Agriculture Act 1947, Smedley helped to found, and become Secretary of, the Farmers ' and Smallholders ' Association in 1947.
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.
Attlee's and Bevan
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.
Attlee's and against
He had intended to stand against the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, but stood for the wrong seat ( Attlee's constituency was Walthamstow West ).
Attlee's and general
* Lord Beginner's song " General Election " was inspired by Attlee's victory in the 1950 British general election.
* 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.
Following the war, he was elected to parliament as a Labour Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Birkenhead East in the 1945 general election, and became Solicitor General in the government of Clement Attlee, serving in that office throughout Attlee's government.
Attlee's and establishment
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 and by
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.
It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee.
Before this, Attlee's political views had been conservative, but he was shocked by the poverty and deprivation he saw while working with slum children, and this caused him to become a socialist.
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.
The party was influenced by social democratic policies such as United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, Clement Attlee's welfare state, elements of European Christian Democracy as well as Republicanism.
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.
The NRDC had been founded in 1948 by Attlee's Labour government to commercialise British publicly funded research.
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.
Attlee's and British
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.
This ideology influenced the policies of the British Labour Party during Clement Attlee's administration.
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.
Attlee's and system
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 and at
This caused Harris to turn down Attlee's subsequent offer of a peerage in protest at this snub ; a principled stand which Harris had taken, and declared, at the time the decision not to award a separate campaign medal was made.
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.
Attlee's and use
An alternative version also exists, which may reflect Attlee's use of English more closely:
Attlee's and .
Attlee's unsought service on the Commission equipped him with a thorough exposure to India and many of its political leaders.
Attlee's government proved itself to be a radical reforming administration.
Attlee's government also carried out their manifesto commitment for nationalisation of basic industries and public utilities.
Despite these problems, one of the main achievements of Attlee's government was the maintenance of near full employment.
Attlee's government faced constant hostility from Conservative sections of society, including the Conservative press.
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.
Attlee's modesty and quiet manner hid a great deal that has only come to light with historical reappraisal.
Attlee's administration presided over the successful transition from a wartime economy to peacetime, tackling problems of demobilisation, shortages of foreign currency, and adverse deficits in trade balances and government expenditure.
It was Attlee's government that decided Britain should have an independent atomic weapons programme, and work began on it in 1947.
" Clement Attlee's biographer argued that this policy " contributed enormously to the defeat of childhood illnesses resulting from bad diet.
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