At the 1922 general election, Attlee became the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for the constituency of Limehouse in Stepney.

Accordingly, Lansbury became leader of the party and Attlee became deputy leader.

The Attlee government then became instrumental in the creation of the successful NATO defence alliance to protect Western Europe against any Soviet aggression.

Attlee became concerned with the power America possessed and therefore called a meeting of some foreign affairs ministers.

) At one time, Attlee had favoured Aneurin Bevan to succeed him as leader, but this became problematic after Bevan split the party.

Although one of his brothers became a clergyman and one of his sisters a missionary, Attlee himself is usually regarded as an agnostic.

His father was imprisoned during the 1926 General Strike for his involvement in a riot and later became Member of Parliament for Pontypool, Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee, and briefly a minister in the 1945 Labour government.

The Festival became associated with the post-war Labour government of Clement Attlee and was rapidly demolished by the incoming Conservative administration of Winston Churchill.

At the 1922 general election, Attlee became MP for the constituency of Limehouse, which he represented while Deputy Prime Minister.

While abroad, he became heavily involved in the politics of the Labour Party, at the time led by Clement Attlee and later Hugh Gaitskell.

In the first few years of the Attlee administration, Tribune became the focus for the Labour left's attempts to persuade Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, to adopt a " third force " democratic socialist foreign policy, with Europe acting independently from the US and the Soviet Union, most coherently advanced in the pamphlet Keep Left ( which was published by the rival New Statesman ).

The Scottish Covenant, however, had little political impact outwith Scotland, being flatly dismissed by prime minister Clement Attlee, and it was not until 1979 that proposals for a Scottish Assembly became a serious political prospect.

Greenwood became deputy leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee.

In December 1943 Lewellin's seat on the committee was assumed by Sir Ronald Campbell and Llewellin became Minister of Food, the position he held until the Churchill government fell to the Labour Party of Clement Attlee in July 1945.

Henderson was succeeded by George Lansbury, and Alexander's contemporary, Clement Attlee, became deputy leader.

At the end of 1946 he became Minister of Defence, a role previously held only by Churchill and Attlee when they were serving as Prime Minister.

In 1935, when Arthur Ponsonby chose to resign with George Lansbury, Snell became Labour's leader in the Lords, serving under Clement Attlee.

When Attlee became leader of the Labour Party in 1935, he created a new Defence Committee for the party, appointing Lawson along with A. V. Alexander and Manny Shinwell.

For this he was attacked by Clement Attlee and the Labour Party, and thus became a liability to the National Government.

Clement Attlee, when he became head of the Labour Government in June 1945, asked de Wiart to stay on in China.

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.

One of its members, Clement Attlee, who subsequently became the British Prime Minister would oversee the granting of independence to India and Pakistan in 1947.

The lake at Eastville Park was instigated as part of a social scheme by Ernest Bevin ( a well-respected westcountryman ), who later became Minister of Labour under Churchill in the coalition government of WW2 and later Foreign Secretary in the Attlee Government from 1945 until his death.

At the Labour Party conference at Southport in 1934, Attlee declared that " We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.

It was said that when Attlee visited King George VI at Buckingham Palace to kiss hands, the notoriously laconic Attlee and the notoriously tongue-tied George VI stood for some minutes in silence before Attlee finally volunteered the remark " I've won the election.

Clement Attlee ( left ) with President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the 1945 Potsdam Conference.

When Attlee died, his estate was sworn for probate purposes at a value of £ 7, 295, a relatively modest sum for so prominent a figure.

In April 2011, Limehouse Library having closed in 2003, the Attlee statue was unveiled in its new home at Queen Mary University of London.

A blue plaque unveiled in 1979 commemorates Attlee at 17 Monkhams Avenue, in Woodford Green in the London borough of Redbridge.

His experience in the region and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time led to Clement Attlee appointing him Viceroy of India after the war, charged with overseeing the transition of British India to independence no later than 1948.

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, President of the United States | U. S. President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. At the Potsdam Conference from July to August 1945, though Germany had surrendered months earlier, instead of withdrawing Soviet forces from Eastern European countries, Stalin had not moved those forces.

Clement Attlee, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945

For example, Robert M. Page, a Reader in Democratic Socialism and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, writes about " transformative democratic socialism " to refer to the politics of the Clement Attlee government ( a strong welfare state, fiscal redistribution, some nationalisation ) and " revisionist democratic socialism ," as developed by Anthony Crosland and Harold Wilson:

Not long after Wilson's retirement, his mental deterioration from Alzheimer's disease began to be apparent, and he did not appear in public after 1988 when he unveiled the Clement Attlee statue at Limehouse Library on 30 November of that year.

His most famous accomplishment came when, as Minister of Health in the post-war Attlee government, he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service, which provides medical care free at point-of-need to all Britons.

* Clement Attlee, who served as Labour Party leader from 1935 to 1955 ( from 1945 to 1951 as prime minister ) was born at Putney in 1883.

Elected to Parliament in the Attlee landslide at the 1945 general election, Thomas held Cardiff Central between 1945 and 1950 and Cardiff West between 1950 and his retirement from the Commons at the 1983 general election.

There was much discussion about the names adopted for most of the colleges with the following alternative names all in consideration at one point or another: for Eliot: Caxton, after William Caxton ; for Keynes: Richborough, a town in Kent ; Anselm, a former Archbishop of Canterbury ; and for Darwin: Anselm ( again ); Attlee, after Clement Attlee, the post war Prime Minister ; Becket, after Thomas Becket, another former Archbishop ( this was the recommendation of the college's provisional committee but rejected by the Senate ); Conrad ; Elgar, after Edward Elgar ; Maitland ; Marlowe, after Christopher Marlowe ; Russell, after Bertrand Russell ( this was the recommendation of the Senate but rejected by the Council ); Tyler, after both Wat Tyler and Tyler Hill on which the campus stands.

The Labour Party Leader Clement Attlee claimed in one political speech in 1937 that the National Government had connived at German rearmament " because of its hatred of Russia.

Although he had won plaudits for his legal skills as Lord Chancellor, Attlee declined to appoint him to the British delegation at the Nuremberg War Trials, telling him bluntly in a letter that his role in the pre-war governments made this unwise.

Evatt ( left ) and Ben Chifley ( middle ) with Clement Attlee ( right ) at the Dominion and British Leaders Conference, London, 1946

The term was later used to describe two later British elections, the 1918 general election, fought at the end of the First World War and resulting in the huge victory of David Lloyd George's wartime coalition government, and the 1945 general election, held during the closing stages of the Second World War, where the Labour Party candidate, Clement Attlee, won by a landslide.