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    Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who...
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    Clement Attlee was invited by King George VI to form the Attlee ministry in the United Kingdom in July 1945, succeeding Winston Churchill as Prime Minister...
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  • Democratic Party. He was the only son of former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Attlee suffered badly from dyslexia, and was a poor student as a child...
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    Attlee. Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (1883–1967) Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee (1927–1991) John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee (born...
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    Helen Attlee, Countess Attlee (née Millar; 20 November 1895 – 7 June 1964) was the wife of British politician and Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Violet...
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    House of Lords. He is the grandson of Clement Attlee, the Labour Prime Minister, who was the first Earl Attlee. Attlee was educated at Stowe School, trained...
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  • Labour served in the wartime coalition of 1940–1945, after which Clement Attlee's Labour government established the National Health Service and expanded...
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    cabinet which included Chamberlain as Lord President of the Council, Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal and later as Deputy Prime Minister, Viscount Halifax...
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    cabinet: Chamberlain as Lord President of the Council, Labour leader Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal (later as Deputy Prime Minister), Halifax as Foreign...
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    relations with the Labour opposition. Future Labour prime minister Clement Attlee complained that Chamberlain "always treated us like dirt," and in April...
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    century or those who served after the Second World War. Generally, Clement Attlee, Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair...
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    prime minister, leading a minority government which lasted nine months. Clement Attlee would become the first Labour leader to lead a majority government in...
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    The statue of Clement Attlee on the Mile End campus of Queen Mary University of London is a bronze sculpture of the British Prime Minister, created by...
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  • Britain's largest and most important possession. One of its members was Clement Attlee, who would later become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945...
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  • Clement Attlee received numerous honours in recognition of his career in politics. These included: Attlee was elevated to the House of Lords on 16 December...
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  • Party leadership election was held following the resignation of Clement Attlee. Attlee was Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951 and stayed on as party leader...
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    Aneurin Bevan (category Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951)
    Labour Party politician, noted for tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government in which he spearheaded the creation of the British National...
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  • Frazer in Downton Abbey (2015) Ronald Pickup in Darkest Hour (2017) Clement Attlee composed this limerick about himself to demonstrate how he was often...
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    1945 United Kingdom general election (category Clement Attlee)
    1930s and his ability to handle domestic issues unrelated to warfare. Clement Attlee, leader of the Labour Party, had been Deputy Prime Minister in the wartime...
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  • parliamentary opposition. After the Second World War, the Labour government of Clement Attlee decided to amend the Parliament Act 1911 to reduce further the power...
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    A. V. Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough (category Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951)
    including during the Second World War, and then Minister of Defence under Clement Attlee. Born in Weston-super-Mare and one of four children, A. V. Alexander...
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    Anthony Eden if he were to die, not Attlee. Unusually in comparison to other unofficial deputy prime ministers, Clement Attlee was described as deputy prime...
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  • John as King George VI James Murphy as Winston Churchill Sal Yusuf as Clement Attlee Ryan Walters as Lord Mountbatten Hella Stichlmair as Edwina Mountbatten...
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    emerged victorious from the Second World War, the Labour Party under Clement Attlee came to power and created a comprehensive welfare state, with the establishment...
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    Herbert Morrison (category Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951)
    Council in the 1930s. After returning to the Commons, he was defeated by Clement Attlee in the 1935 Labour Party leadership election but later acted as Home...
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    – In his second term, October 1951 to April 1955, only Clement Attlee was alive. Clement Attlee – From the death of Stanley Baldwin in November 1947 until...
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  • 1935 Labour Party leadership election (category Clement Attlee)
    Morrison and Arthur Greenwood challenged Clement Attlee, the incumbent party leader of only one month and one day. Attlee, previously Deputy Leader, had been...
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    British-built Abadan oil refinery, then the world's largest, but Prime Minister Clement Attlee (in power until 1951) opted instead to tighten the economic boycott...
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  • British politician Clement Attlee (1883–1967), Prime Minister of UK (1945–1951) Clement Greenberg (1909–1994), American art critic Clement Haynsworth (1912–1989)...
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    regularly be found with Churchill until the early hours of the morning. Clement Attlee commented that "Churchill often listened to Beaverbrook's advice but...
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