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2 giorni fa · Upon his death, the title passed to his son Martin Richard Attlee, 2nd Earl Attlee (1927–1991), who defected from Labour to the SDP in 1981. It is now held by Clement Attlee's grandson John Richard Attlee, 3rd Earl Attlee.
4 giorni fa · Clement Attlee, British Labour Party leader (1935–55) and prime minister (1945–51). He presided over the establishment of the welfare state in Great Britain and the granting of independence to India, the most important step in the conversion of the British Empire into the Commonwealth of Nations.
- Roy Jenkins
4 giorni fa · The defining experiences of Attlee’s life were as an Army officer throughout the First World War (breaking with his brother’s pacifism), his close encounters with poverty and the politics of poverty in east London over four decades, and his role in the Second World War coalition as deputy prime minister to Winston Churchill, whom he consistently admired.
4 giorni fa · partition of India, division of British India into the independent countries of India and Pakistan according to the Indian Independence Act passed by the British Parliament on July 18, 1947. Set to take effect on August 15, the rapid partition led to a population transfer of unprecedented magnitude, accompanied by devastating communal violence ...
5 giorni fa · Could Sir Keir Starmer be Clement Attlee and could July 2024 be July 1945? That is the hope of the Labour Party: now, as then, a landslide general election victory, after 14 years of Tory ...
3 giorni fa · After the Second World War ended in ... between 18 and 26 years old to serve in the armed forces for 18 months from January 1949, was passed by Clement Attlee’s Labour administration in ...
4 giorni fa · A labour of love across two generations. Camden Trades Council vice-chair George Binette delves into a distinctive history of the local building blocks of working-class solidarity. Thursday, 2nd May — By Dan Carrier. Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn with Islington Trades Council [Picture courtesy of Islington Trades Council]
