The current prime minister would be wise to study Clement Attlee’s post-war premiership, which also started with a landslide ...

Echoes of Clement Attlee with first July election since 1945 The Labour party gained a 145-seat majority in 1945.

On top of this, the government has become known for doing some remarkably un-Labour things. In September 2024, it changed the ...

Labour wants to govern until at least 2049, a Cabinet minister has said. Darren Jones, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said he wanted Labour to become the “natural party of government ...

Starmer’s U-turns don’t stop at welfare reform – he is a veritable boomerang of a Prime Minister. In an interview with Tom ...

Of course, governments of all stripes have had to water down plans and perform dramatic U-turns. However, this has already ...

General Election Labour Party Mhairi Black Scottish independence SNP War in Ukraine Politics By Letters Share Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government created the NHS and the welfare state ...

A new play documenting the fascinating time in post-war history when Government changed in power from Conservative Prime Minister Winston Churchill to Labour's Clement Attlee, comes to Liverpool's ...

The Labour Party has pledged to build new towns reminiscent of the Clement Attlee government after the Second World War. Labour has vowed to build 1.5 million new homes across the country over the ...

The last general election held in July saw a Labour landslide in which Clement Attlee swept to power to oust Winston Churchill after the end of Second World War hostilities in Europe. The 1945 ...

COMMENT: 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 ...

In 1945, the UK was flat broke. It owed the US for wartime Lend Lease programmes and its empire was imploding. What did the newly-elected Attlee… ...