Attlee in a sentence

Attlee and Churchill worked together very smoothly, with Attlee working backstage to handle much of the detail and organizational work in Parliament, as Churchill took centre stage with his attention on diplomacy, military policy, and broader issues.

Clem Attlee (1998) -- updated and revised and expanded edition, Clem Attlee: Labour's Great Reformer (2015) * Burridge, Trevor.

Attlee replaced Churchill at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, after Churchill had been unceremoniously dumped by an electorate best placed to deliver judgement on him.

He christened his parrot Boris and his tortoise Maggie after the former Tory prime ministers, and owns a cat called Attlee after the Labour PM and a Patterdale terrier called Betty, in honour of old Labour comrade and late speaker, Betty Boothroyd.

In fact he resigned from the Labour government of Clement Attlee because he viewed the introduction of charges for dental work and optical services, as well as prescriptions, as a breach of "socialist principles".

Successful Downing Streets, as under past Labour prime ministers Clement Attlee, James Callaghan and Tony Blair, took their staff’s loyalty for granted.

Clement Attlee on a visit to the United States, circa 1956.

During the leadership contest, Starmer revealed that his favourite Labour leader is not its most revered — Clement Attlee — nor most successful — Tony Blair.

Francis Beckett’s ‘Clem Attlee – Labour’s Great Reformer’ is published by Haus.

There is another option – a 21st-century recreation of the spirit of the New Deal, the Attlee government and Jean Monnet and the founders of the EU.

While little known outside Westminster, the 39-year-old has written two biographies of Labour’s great figures – Aneurin Bevan and Clement Attlee – and practised as a barrister until becoming an MP in 2015.

Attlee went on to serve in Winston Churchill's wartime Cabinet, and then defeated the famous leader in 1945.

Hamas and Hezbollah friends, Israel and the United States enemies, Hatton a hero, Churchill a villain - Attlee and Bevan would be spinning in their grave.

The Attlee government were crucial to development of the modern NHS although it is arguable that in centralizing administration in Whitehal much of the existing decentralised flexibility of local authority and friendly society management was lost.

The venerable and pioneering working-class party of Keir Hardie and Clement Attlee has been transformed into a weird personality cult constructed around the talentless allotment-gardener Corbyn.

At the time, reported The Guardian, Attlee was composing his opposition to Nelson Chamberlain’s appeasement policy.

Speaking from his home in South Cerney, Gloucestershire, Mr Willer told The Guardian Attlee, his wife Violet and their own four children took him in on Easter Sunday 1939.

Theresa May has been urged to show the same courage as Clement Attlee did when creating the in order to fix the UK’s crumbling social care system.

Agriculture The Attlee Government placed strong emphasis on improving the quality of life in rural areas, benefiting both farmers and other consumers.

All major parties committed themselves to fulfilling this aim, but most historians say that Attlee's Labour Party were seen by the electorate as the most likely to follow it through.