Due to the time he needed to devote to the commission, and contrary to a promise MacDonald made to Attlee to induce him to serve on the commission, he was not initially offered a ministerial post in the Second Labour Government.

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

The Attlee Government also extended the powers of local authorities to requisition houses and parts of houses, and made the acquisition of land less difficult than before.

The Attlee Government also significantly increased pensions and other benefits, with pensions raised to become more of a living income than they had been.

Although the Attlee Government failed to meet its targets, primarily due to economic constraints, over a million new homes were built between 1945 and 1951 ( a significant achievement under the circumstances ) which ensured that decent, affordable housing was available to many low-income families for the first time ever.

A more extensive system of social welfare benefits was established by the Attlee Government, which did much to reduce acute social deprivation.

The cumulative impact of the Attlee ’ s Government ’ s health and welfare policies was such that all the indices of health ( such as statistics of school medical or dental officers, or of medical officers of health ) showed signs of improvement, with continual improvements in survival rates for infants and increased life expectancy for the elderly.

As a result of the Attlee Government ’ s initiatives in agriculture, there was a 20 % increase in output between 1947 and 1952, while Britain adopted one of the most mechanised and efficient farming industries in the world.

The Attlee Government ensured provisions of the Education Act 1944 were fully implemented, with free secondary education becoming a right for the first time.

When the Attlee Government was voted out of office in 1951, the economy had been improved compared to 1945.

In industry they now opposed strike action and supported the Joint Production Committees, which aimed to increase productivity, and supported the National Government that was led by Winston Churchill ( Conservative ) and Clement Attlee ( Labour ).

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.

Escape from Empire: The Attlee Government and the Indian Problem, the standard history of the British position

Alongside Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison and Stafford Cripps Dalton was initially seen as one of the " Big Five " of the Labour Government.

He was Minister of Town and Country Planning in the Government of Clement Attlee from 1945 until he retired in 1950.

Following the Conservative victory in that election Earl Attlee was appointed a Lord-in-Waiting or Government whip in the House of Lords.

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

Attlee then turned to the conduct of the campaign itself, concluding " the gravamen of my attack on the Government is that it does not seem that there was a thinking-out of our plans beforehand, that there was not adequate intelligence, that there was not the necessary concentration on the essential objective and I ask whether, at any time, there was not delay and discussion where action was necessary?

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

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.

Also, during 1948 and 1949 there were lengthy unofficial strikes, particularly in the docks, so the Labour Attlee Government implemented this Act to proclaim a state of emergency and used soldiers as strike-breakers by getting them to unload boats in London, Liverpool and Avonmouth.

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:

Throughout, there is a strong sense of the hardships of the post-war period, including comments on the increased burden of taxation associated with the government of Clement Attlee.

Attlee met Violet Millar on a trip to Italy in 1921.

The decision was later reversed on appeal, but the financial problems caused by the episode almost forced Attlee out of politics.

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.

During a debate on defence a year later Attlee declared " We are told in the White Paper that there is danger against which we have to guard ourselves.

Attlee responded the next day in the debate on increased air estimates that Hitler's speech contained unfavourable references to the Soviet Union but that " We see here a chance to call a halt in the armaments race ... We do not think that our answer to Herr Hitler should be just rearmament.

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.

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.

Coat of arms of the Earl Attlee | Earls Attlee He retired from the Commons and was elevated to the peerage to take his seat in the House of Lords as Earl Attlee and Viscount Prestwood on 16 December 1955.

Several years after his death, a street on a new housing development in Tividale, West Midlands, was named Attlee Close in his memory.

Attlee was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Queen Mary College on 15 December 1948.

Broadcast on 15 September 2007, it was written by Robin Glendinning, with Bill Wallis playing Attlee.

The following year, Major watched his first debate in the House of Commons – Harold Macmillan's only budget – and has attributed his political ambitions to that event, and to a chance meeting with former Prime Minister Clement Attlee on the King's Road.

Stalin, Churchill, and Truman — as well as Attlee, who participated alongside Churchill while awaiting the outcome of the 1945 general election, and then replaced Churchill as Prime Minister after the Labour Party's victory over the Conservatives — gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany, which had agreed to unconditional surrender nine weeks earlier, on 8 May ( V-E Day ).

* March 15 – Clement Attlee promises independence to India as soon as they can agree on a constitution.

Under the Constitution of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister's role has evolved, based often on the individual's personal appeal and strength of character, as contrasted between, for example, Winston Churchill as against Clement Attlee, Margaret Thatcher as against John Major.

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.

Labour won a landslide victory on 26 July 1945 bringing Clement Attlee to power.

The foundation stone was laid by Clement Attlee, then Prime Minister, in 1949 on the site of the former Lion Brewery, built in 1837.

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.