Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clement Attlee leaving No 10 Downing Street in 1949. 'Attlee's greatest quality wasn't succinctness – it was integrity.'Photograph ...

Attlee was a gifted manager, who showed it possible for modest politicians to be successful if they have decent ideas Winston Churchill once described Clement Attlee as a modest man with much to be ...

Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, was a British Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United ...

When Clement Attlee was once asked how he had felt on first entering 10 Downing Street, his reply was characteristically terse and modest. “There were jobs to be done,” he said. There were indeed jobs ...

Yet, in today’s political climate, characterised by polarisation and wall-to-wall media coverage, how has the post-war prime minister’s legacy endured? In 1948, Britain’s working class, plagued by ...

Clement Attlee was one of the great sons of the LSE, and went on to become the Prime Minister of the most radical left wing government in British history. Yet he was looked down upon by many academics ...

Readers respond to Martin Kettle’s piece contrasting the premierships of Labour leaders past and present Martin Kettle rightly says Aneurin Bevan is the one politician other than Clement Attlee whom ...

Sir Lindsay Hoyle has named his new pet kitten after former Labour prime minister Clement Attlee. The Speaker of the House is known for his love of animals and his wide array of pets, all named after ...

Clement Attlee and his wife Violet wave to crowds in London on 26 July 1945 – the day he became prime minister (Getty) My great stroke of professional fortune came in my final undergraduate year, when ...

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