John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (London: Riverrun, 2016), 668 pp., $30.00. CLEMENT ATTLEE was blessed by good fortune. Wounded at Gallipoli, he survived the military disaster while many ...

Clement Attlee was one of the great sons of the LSE, and went on to become the Prime Minister of the most radical left wing government in British history. Yet he was looked down upon by many academics ...

Oxford University Press, $39.95, 670 pages, illustrated It is not easy for any leader of a nation to follow one whose greatness is universally acknowledged and who has a personality to match. In a ...

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 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 ...

David Runciman tells the story of the 1945 election and the dawn of a new age. The 1945 general election was one of the biggest shocks in British parliamentary history: a decisive rejection of Winston ...