The most significant problem facing Attlee and his ministers remained the economy, as the war effort had left Britain nearly bankrupt.

Although he never made it into the " top five " of the Labour government ( Attlee, Bevin, Morrison, Dalton and Greenwood, later replaced by Cripps ), he remained an influential member throughout.

Attlee made a broadcast in opposition to it, saying the budget ... was the natural expression of the character of the present Government.

Following the defeat in 1951, Attlee continued to lead the party in opposition.

On 24 November, Baldwin consulted the three leading opposition politicians in Britain: Leader of the Opposition Clement Attlee, Liberal leader Sir Archibald Sinclair and Winston Churchill.

On 24 November, Baldwin consulted the three leading opposition politicians in Britain: Leader of the Opposition Clement Attlee, Liberal leader Sir Archibald Sinclair and Winston Churchill.

He sat on Labour's front bench in opposition, speaking on, amongst other policy areas, local government, where he encouraged Clement Attlee.

In opposition, Robens continued to rise in the party, being appointed shadow Foreign Secretary by Clement Attlee, and starting to be considered as a future candidate for party leader.

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

Attlee served as acting leader for nine months from December 1933, after Lansbury fractured his thigh in an accident.

With a general election looming, the Parliamentary Labour Party then appointed Attlee as interim leader, on the understanding that a leadership election would be held after the general election.

One of his main reasons for staying on as leader was to frustrate the leadership ambitions of Herbert Morrison, whom Attlee disliked for political and personal reasons.

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

Clement Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party, served as Deputy Prime Minister.

Infant, child, and maternity services were expanded, while the Official Food Policy Committee ( chaired by the deputy PM and Labour leader Clement Attlee ) approved grants of fuel and subsidised milk to mothers and to children under the age of five in June 1940.

His political commitment included assigning implementation responsibility to Baroness Lee, the widow of Aneurin Bevan, the charismatic leader of Labour's left wing whom Wilson had joined in resigning from the Attlee cabinet.

After the 1955 general election, Attlee retired as leader.

* 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.

After the retirement of Clement Attlee as leader in December 1955, Gaitskell beat Bevan and the ageing Herbert Morrison in the party leadership contest.

Labour Party leader Clement Attlee held the post in the wartime coalition government led by Winston Churchill, and had general responsibility for domestic affairs, allowing Churchill to concentrate on the war.

In 1935 its non-pacifist wing persuaded its pacifist leader George Lansbury to resign, to be replaced by Clement Attlee, and in 1937 Ernest Bevin and Hugh Dalton persuaded the party to oppose appeasement.

To widespread surprise, the Labour Party under Clement Attlee won a landslide victory over popular war leader Winston Churchill in the 1945 general election, and implemented their social democratic programme.

Labour lost office in 1951 ( despite polling 200, 000 more votes than the Conservatives ), and after Clement Attlee retired as leader in 1955, he was succeeded by the figurehead of the " right-establishment " Hugh Gaitskell, against Aneurin Bevan.

Lansbury resigned and was replaced as leader by his deputy Clement Attlee, who along with Lansbury and Stafford Cripps had been one of only three Labour Cabinet Ministers to be re-elected at the General Election in 1931.

In the 1931 general election, Cripps was one of only three former Labour ministers to hold their seats alongside the party leader George Lansbury and deputy leader Clement Attlee.

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

As Labour Party leader Clement Attlee was absent, Arthur Greenwood stood up in his place and announced that he was speaking for Labour.

Attlee appointed Addison to be Labour's leader in the Lords in 1940, after Lord Snell stepped down for health reasons.

Attlee was his regular deputy in these committees, and answered for the government in parliament when Churchill was absent.

Attlee supported Churchill in his continuation of Britain's resistance after the French capitulation in 1940, and proved a loyal ally to Churchill throughout the conflict ; when the war cabinet had voted on whether to negotiate peace terms, Attlee ( along with fellow Labour minister Arthur Greenwood ) voted in favour of fighting, giving Churchill the majority he needed to continue the war.

The results of the election came as a surprise to many, including Attlee, when they were announced on 26 July.

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.

Powell's ambition to be Viceroy of India crumbled in February 1947, when Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced that Indian independence was imminent.

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 won the 1945 general election and succeeded Winston Churchill after their coalition broke up but only after a two-month interval when Attlee was not a member of the government.

The new Lord Home took his seat in the Lords ; a by-election was called to appoint a new MP for Lanark, but it was still pending when Attlee called another general election in October 1951.

Clement Attlee continued this arrangement when he came to power in 1945 but appointed a separate Minister of Defence for the first time in 1947.

In later years Bevin gave Attlee ( whom he privately referred to as " little Clem ") staunch support, especially in 1947 when Herbert Morrison and Stafford Cripps led further intrigue against Attlee.

At the 1945 general election, when Labour returned to power under Clement Attlee, Baldwin was elected for Paisley.

His homosexuality was well-known, and Attlee was concerned about the potential for scandal at a time when homosexuality was still illegal: he kept Tom Driberg out of the government for the same reason.

Arguably his most famous moment came on 2 September 1939 when, acting for an absent Attlee, he was called to respond to Neville Chamberlain's ambivalent speech on whether Britain would aid Poland.

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.

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

Clement Attlee relied upon his wife Vi to drive him when campaigning, but Mrs, later Lady Attlee was a notoriously bad driver and Boaks would attempt private prosecutions whenever she crashed.