The current prime minister would be wise to study Clement Attlee’s post-war premiership, which also started with a landslide election but, mired in economic uncertainty and internal conflict, quickly ...

In a stunning upset while World War II was still raging in Asia, the British people replaced the Conservative Winston Churchill with a man as unlike him as possible, the Socialist Clement Attlee.

Following a chaotic and deeply damaging row over welfare cuts, Keir Starmer can’t afford any more cock-ups, says Douglas Beattie A year ago the general election campaign was closing and the country ...

Attlee turned in a stellar performance as Churchill’s wartime deputy. To begin with, he got along with Churchill, no mean feat. Many in the Labour Party felt that he was too deferential to the ...

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so,” warned Mark Twain.

Like many another middle-class British family back in the '30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem's duties ...

Clement Attlee was one of the most successful leaders in modern Britain yet was habitually shy, laconic and self-deprecating. He believed in basic honesty and accountability. When asked whether he ...

Clement Attlee News from United Press International. When Queen Elizabeth II agreed to suspend Parliament, she gave British Prime Minister Boris Johnson what he wanted.