This group opposed what they saw as a leftward shift in Labour policy, the increasing prominence within the party of Tony Benn, and the involvement of trade unions in choosing the leader of the Labour Party.

Further, they opposed the creation of an electoral college to elect the leader of the Party, who had previously been elected by members of the Parliamentary Labour Party – in particular, the arrangement of block voting by constituency parties and trade unions, with the total votes of a constituency party or trade union being given to a candidate based on a first-past-the-post within that CLP or union, or changed at the discretion of delegates ( similar to primary elections in the United States ).

Ivor Crewe and Anthony King found five defectors who claimed to have voted for Foot in order to saddle Labour with an unelectable leader and make life easier in their new party.

Democratic, Democratic Labour, and Radical were all mentioned as possible names for the new party, as well as New Labour ( which future Labour leader Tony Blair would use to promote the Labour Party more than a decade later ) but eventually Social Democratic was settled on because the ' Gang of Four ' consciously wanted to mould the philosophy and ideology of the new party on the Social Democracy practised on mainland Europe.

* Corrupt architect John Poulson and links to Conservative Home Secretary Reginald Maudling, Labour council leader T. Dan Smith and others ( 1972-4 ): Maudling resigned, Smith sentenced to imprisonment.

At the time, he admired Ramsay MacDonald and helped MacDonald get elected as Labour Party leader at the 1922 Labour leadership election.

George Lansbury, a convinced pacifist, resigned as leader at the 1935 Labour Party conference after the party voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

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.

Having served as prime minister for six years and 92 days, his reign as prime minister was the longest unbroken reign of any Labour leader until Tony Blair more than 50 years later.

His last four years as leader are widely seen as one of the Labour Party's weaker periods.

He retired as leader of the party on 14 December 1955, having led Labour for twenty years, and was succeeded by Hugh Gaitskell.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour Party leader, received the vote with a promise to " fight, fight, and fight again " against the decision and it was overturned at the 1961 Conference.

The foreign minister, Osborne Riviere immediately became prime minister, but the education minister, Roosevelt Skerrit succeeded him as prime minister and became the new leader of the Dominica Labour Party.

When elections were held to the newly created Scottish Parliament in 1999, as leader of the Scottish Labour Party and through a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, Dewar became the inaugural holder of the First Minister of Scotland post.

In 2000, Dewar died of a brain hemorrhage and was succeeded as First Minister of Scotland and Scottish Labour leader by Henry McLeish.

Here, he met his close friend, John Smith ( who would later become leader of the Labour Party ), Sir Menzies Campbell ( who would later become leader of the Liberal Democrats ) and Lord Irvine of Lairg ( who would serve as Lord Chancellor in the same cabinet as Dewar ) through the Dialectic Society.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

One firm, Scammell and Nephew Ltd, took a civil action against Attlee and the other Labour members of the committee ( although not against the Conservative members who had also supported this ).

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.

During the course of the second Labour government, Attlee had become increasingly disillusioned by Ramsay MacDonald, whom he came to regard as vain and incompetent, and later wrote scathingly of him in his autobiography.

George Lansbury and Attlee were among the few surviving Labour MPs who had served in government.

Attlee led Labour through the 1935 general election, which saw the party stage a partial recovery from its disastrous performance in 1931.

Throughout the 1920s and most of the 1930s, the Labour Party's official policy, supported by Attlee, was to oppose rearmament and support internationalism and collective security under the League of Nations.

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

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.

All major parties were committed to this aim, but perhaps Attlee and Labour were seen by the electorate as the best candidates to follow it through.

The success of the Attlee Government's welfare legislation in reducing poverty was such that, in the general election of 1950, according to Kevin Jefferys, " Labour propaganda could make much of the claim that social security had eradicated the most abject destitution of the 1930s ".

Many Labour MPs felt Attlee should have retired after the 1951 election and allowed a younger man to lead the party.

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 ).