For anyone with what used to be called “progressive tendencies,” the best, if largely overlooked, book of last year was surely John Bew’s biography of Clement Attlee, the leader of the British Labour ...

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 prime ...

(JTA) — Clement Attlee, who served as prime minister of Britain in the aftermath of World War II, housed a refugee child who escaped from the Nazis just months before the start of the war, a British ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clement Attlee leaving No 10 Downing Street in 1949. 'Attlee's greatest quality wasn't succinctness – it was integrity.'Photograph ...

When Clement Attlee was once asked how he had felt on first entering 10 Downing Street, his reply was characteristically terse and modest. “There were jobs to be done,” he said. There were indeed jobs ...

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, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s post-war leaders. Surveys for Britain’s best prime minister usually ...

Attlee was a gifted manager, who showed it possible for modest politicians to be successful if they have decent ideas Winston Churchill once described Clement Attlee as a modest man with much to be ...

Winston Churchill said Clement Attlee was a modest man who had much to be modest about. But they worked together to help save their country. By Colin Kidd In today’s polarised Britain, where discord ...

Clement Attlee and his wife Violet wave to crowds in London on 26 July 1945 – the day he became prime minister (Getty) My great stroke of professional fortune came in my final undergraduate year, when ...