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.

During World War I, Attlee was given the rank of captain and served with the South Lancashire Regiment in the Gallipoli Campaign in Turkey.

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

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

* 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.

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.

After the war he served in the Attlee Ministry, firstly as President of the Board of Trade and between 1947 and 1950 as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

During the Attlee government, he served successively as Lord Privy Seal and Paymaster-General.

It was created in 1947 for Fred Kershaw, who later served as a Lord-in-Waiting in the Labour government of Clement Attlee.

He had previously represented Sheffield Park in the House of Commons and after his elevation to the peerage served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip ) from 1950 to 1951 in the Labour administration of Clement Attlee.

He served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) from 1949 to 1950 in the Labour administration of Clement Attlee.

He was Sir Ernest Cassel Professor of Commercial and Industrial Law at the University of London from 1930 to 1946 and served as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) from 1946 to 1950 in the Labour administration of Clement Attlee.

He later served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard in the Labour government of Clement Attlee.

He subsequently served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard under Clement Attlee.

He notably served as Home Secretary under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 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.

A miner and later Member of Parliament in County Durham, he served in the governments of Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee.

William Allen Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt PC, KC ( 15 April 1885 – 16 August 1957 ), was a British Labour politician and lawyer, who served as Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain under Clement Attlee from 1945 to 1951.

He then served under Clement Attlee as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard ( Deputy Chief Whip in the House of Lords ) from 1945 until 1949.

Citrine later supported the Attlee government's policy of nationalisation and served on the National Coal Board and served as chairman of the Central Electricity Board 1947-57.

George Alfred Isaacs JP DL ( 28 May 1883 – 26 April 1979 ) was a British politician and trades unionist who served in the government of Clement Attlee.

He served under Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal, with a seat in the cabinet, from April to October 1947, when he resigned.

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 ).

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.

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.

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

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.

Attlee remained opposition leader when war broke out in September 1939.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.