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 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 ...

(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 ...

Clement Attlee leaving No 10 Downing Street in 1949. ‘Attlee’s greatest quality wasn’t succinctness – it was integrity.’Photograph: PA Martin Kettle rightly says Aneurin Bevan is the one politician ...

A 90-year-old man who was taken in as a child refugee by Clement Attlee after fleeing from the Nazis has met the former prime minister's granddaughter for the first time. Paul Willer said he and Mr ...

A Jewish refugee who was rescued from the Nazis and secretly sheltered in Britain by Clement Attlee has revealed he was 'showered with love' by the former Prime Minister's family, as he met his ...

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 ...

One is the grandson of a schoolgirl who was the first official patient of the new NHS nearly 70 years ago. The other is the great-granddaughter of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who oversaw the launch ...

It takes courage and determination to be a Labour party leader. Enemies, before and behind you, disparage your appearance, sneer at your policies, patronise you: you have no talent, are too ordinary – ...

A VICTORIAN home in Romsey with a link to Prime Minister Clement Attlee has been listed for sale at £900,000.

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 ...