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 ...

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 ...

'There was no doubt in his mind... to beat Hitler he had to LOCK UP Gandhi and Nehru': A new biography looks at Clement Attlee 'the patriot' who beat Churchill to fulfil the promise of self-rule in ...