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    Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee KG OM CH PC FRS TD (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967), was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • wartime coalition, after which it won a majority in the 1945 election. Clement Attlee's government enacted extensive nationalisation and established the modern...
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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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    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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    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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    cabinet: Chamberlain as Lord President of the Council, Labour leader Clement Attlee as Lord Privy Seal (later Deputy Prime Minister), Halifax as Foreign...
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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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  • Station on 7 December, to be met by a crowd of supporters including Clement Attlee, Stafford Cripps, Willie Gallacher, and Will Lawther. A 2024 study found...
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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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  • 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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    minister of the 20th century, with Lloyd George in second place and Clement Attlee in third place. As Blair was still in office he was not ranked. The...
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  • study constitutional reform in British India. One of its members was Clement Attlee, who would later become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1945...
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    Arthur Greenwood (category Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951)
    clearance. Greenwood became Deputy Leader of the Labour Party under Clement Attlee. During the 1935 General Election campaign, Greenwood attacked Chancellor...
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    Ellen Wilkinson (category Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951)
    Morrison's attempts to replace Clement Attlee as the Labour Party's leader; nevertheless, when he formed his postwar government, Attlee appointed Wilkinson as...
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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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  • Callcott The Theory of Everything (2014) - John Taylor The Crown (2016) - Clement Attlee House of the Dragon (2022) - Septon Eustace (Episode: "The Green Council")...
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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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    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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  • 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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    from 1940 to 1945. Following the 1945 general election landslide under Clement Attlee (1945–1951) it set up the welfare state with the National Health Service...
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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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    functioned fully as members of the Government, neither Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee nor these three received the salary for the post of Leader of the Opposition...
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  • Darkest Hour (2017) Jeremy Irons in Munich – The Edge of War (2021) Clement Attlee composed this limerick about himself to demonstrate how he was often...
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