Kit Kowol’s first book, released at the end of 2024, achieves the rare feat of fundamentally revising our understanding of British politics and society during the Second World War.

THIS excellent book from John Bew gives a comprehensive account of the life of Labour prime minister Clement Attlee ... Bew captures the sense of Attlee being the right man in the right place. After ...

Instead Labour leader Clement Attlee - Churchill's deputy PM in the wartime coalition government - was given the job of leading the country into the post-war future. His party's socialist programme of ...

If the Labour Party had a two-word pitch going into the ... austerity was most associated with Clement Attlee, the sainted former Labour leader, whose government implored Britons to “produce ...

However, in July 1945, Britain elected a new prime minister: Clement Attlee of the Labour Party. Image caption, Clement Attlee delivers a speech to a crowd of people during the 1945 General ...

Clement Attlee lacked most of the qualities that make for success ... but in the end he turned the tables on his critics. He led the Labour Party for twenty years and presided, as prime minister from ...

Having emerged from the aircraft with her baby, one young mother was asked by the press if she had a message for others like ...

after he said he came across a speech by Clement Attlee who he describes as the "godfather of Brexit". He left Labour because the party "didn't respect the referendum" and he then joined the ...

But the vital contribution of Clement Attlee, leader of the Labour Party, is often overlooked. Although he was not made deputy prime minister until February 1942, he was in practice No 2 to Churchill ...

with the Thatcherite neoliberal model taking over in 1979 from the social democratic corporatist model set in place by the post-war Clement Attlee Labour government. Prior to Attlee, there had been ...

Lammy opened his speech in the Locarno room by praising Ernest Bevin, Labour’s post-war foreign secretary and co-architect, with Clement Attlee ... by the Conservative Party of the present.

Constituent Assembly elected according to Cabinet Mission Plan for undivided India met on 9th December, 1946 with Dr.