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Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS ( 3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967 ) was a British Labour politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951, and as the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
Clement Attlee ( left ) with President Harry S. Truman and Joseph Stalin at the 1945 Potsdam Conference.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin ( left ) with Clement Attlee in 1945.
It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee.
" Even Thatcher herself wrote in her 1995 memoirs, which charted her beginnings in Grantham to her victory in the 1979 General Election, that she admired Attlee, writing: " Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer.
On 30 November 1988, a bronze statue of Clement Attlee was unveiled by Harold Wilson ( the next Labour prime minister after Attlee ) outside Limehouse Library in his former constituency.
Although possessed of a genial personality, Clement Attlee was notably taciturn in his relations with the Press, sometimes offering only monosyllabic answers to reporters ' questions.
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Clement and Leader
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.
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.
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.
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.
Since the premiership of Clement Attlee, the position of Lord Privy Seal has frequently been combined with that of Leader of the House of Lords or Leader of the House of Commons.
Lord Longford served in the Labour administrations of Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Privy Seal, Leader of the House of Lords and Secretary of State for the Colonies.
Therefore, with the agreement of the Prime Minister ( Clement Attlee ) and the Leader of the Opposition ( Winston Churchill ) in 1946, both Orders returned to the personal gift of the Sovereign.
* Alun Wyburn-Powell, Clement Davies: Liberal Leader ( Politico's, 2003 ) ISBN 1-902301-97-8
He was Home Secretary in the 1945 Labour government of Clement Attlee, and Leader of the House of Commons in 1951.
By turns a liberal and a socialist, he served as Minister of Munitions during the first World War, and was later Minister of Health under David Lloyd George and Leader of the House of Lords under Clement Attlee.
He worked with Clement Attlee, the future Leader of the Labour party with whom he formed a close relationship, and was an active member of the Socialist Medical Association.
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He was the acting Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party ( as chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party ) from 1940 during the time Clement Attlee was in government.
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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.
Clement Attlee, the leader of the Labour Party, served as Deputy Prime Minister.
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.
This ideology influenced the policies of the British Labour Party during Clement Attlee's administration.
In the biography of the 1945 UK Labour Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Francis Beckett states: " the government ... wanted what would become known as a mixed economy ".
In 1945, the British Labour Party, led by Clement Attlee, was elected to office based upon a radical socialist programme.
Clement Attlee, U. K. Prime Minister, Labour Party ( UK ) | Labour Party government, 1945 – 51.
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.
The end of the war saw a landslide victory for Clement Attlee and the Labour Party.
* 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.
In the 1945 British general election, Churchill's Conservative party was soundly defeated by the Labour party of Clement Attlee.
Labour won a landslide victory on 26 July 1945 bringing Clement Attlee to power.
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.
* 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.
* Clement Attlee — Labour Prime Minister in the first post-war government ; lived in a large villa " Heywood ", which was later demolished and replaced by a small block of flats.
* Clement Attlee, UK Prime Minister 1945 – 1951, Labour Prime Minister
In October 1945 he was created Baron Pakenham, of Cowley in the City of Oxford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, by the Labour government of Clement Attlee, and took his seat in the House of Lords as one of the few Labour peers.
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.
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