Clement Attlee and his wife Violet wave to crowds in London on 26 July 1945 – the day he became prime minister (Getty) I am the first in my family to stay on for A-levels, let alone anything else.

Attlee unseated Churchill as Prime Minister. Churchill was reelected in 1951, during which the Conservative Party accepted the Labour Party’s newly created welfare system.

Clement Attlee got himself a press secretary. The Prime Minister’s new Steve Early is one of the bright boys of British Socialism: chunky, rumpled, pipe-smoking Francis Williams.

Like many another middle-class British family back in the '30s, Mr. & Mrs. Clement Attlee liked to spend their weekends getting away from it all in the family car. When Clem's duties ...

LONDON, Feb. 20, 1947 (UP) -- Prime Minister Clement R. Attlee told the House of Commons today that the government intends to hand India over to the Indians not later than June, 1948.

Lord Samuel, first Palestine High Commissioner who celebrated his 80th birthday yesterday, today received congratulatory messages from the King and Queen, Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Winston ...

Monarchs can be jealous of their notional right to choose the prime minister. Attlee went on to become prime minister in his own right, ousting Churchill in the 1945 General Election.

Prime Minister Clement Attlee extends warm greetings to the 6,000 athletes from 60 countries who have gathered in London to take part in the Olympic Games.