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  1. 1 day ago · 1) Maverick characters. Britain’s hereditary peers sure are an eclectic bunch. There’s John Attlee, the 3rd Earl Attlee. He’s the grandson of post-war Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee. But while John’s the spitting image of his Labour titan grandad, there’s a twist: This one’s a Tory. One of the biggest critics of the plan to ...

  2. 19 hours ago · He points out that Churchill himself had relatively little interest in such matters during his first premiership of 1940-45, so any notable measures the government promoted or enacted had much more to do with the Labour leader Clement Attlee, to whom most of the tedious business of governing was deputed during the wartime coalition.

  3. 19 hours ago · Soon, they will have a chance to prove it, as they are asked to sign off the last piece of Clement Attlee’s roads programme. In 1946, the Minister of Transport published the country’s first programme for a network of national roads (nicknamed ‘the tearoom plan’ after it was displayed on the wall of the Commons Tea Room).

  4. 1 day ago · Sidney chaired the LSE Board until 1911; he stayed a Board member until the 1930s. He chaired the interview panel which appointed Clement Attlee as a lecturer in 1912; in 1919 he appointed William Beveridge as Director – and in 1937, in one of his last interventions, persuaded Beveridge to leave.

  5. 2 days ago · After the second world war and the election of Clement Attlee as Labour prime minister, class still looked firmly cemented into British political allegiances, as Martin Farr, senior lecturer in ...

  6. 3 days ago · “Labour wins when it’s offering hope,” Beattie says. Ramsay MacDonald’s fight against mass unemployme­nt in the 1920s, Clement Attlee’s welfare state, Harold Wilson’s “white heat of technology”, and Tony Blair’s “things can only get better” mantra all offered “a vision that there’s a better life”.

  7. 2 days ago · In 1950, Clement Attlee, the Labour prime minister, called a general election. Dunglass was invited to stand once again as Unionist candidate for Lanark.

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