Attlee


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British statesman and leader of the Labour Party who instituted the welfare state in Britain (1883-1967)

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It was Attlee who presided over the establishment of the National Health Service.
Attlee and those who think like him can in Mr Wilson's book be counted among the many 'traitors' who have helped to mislead the UK since Winston held sway Kevin Cryan, Radford Simple plan in place for Brexit ANDY McDonald (Letters, August 7) says that there is confusion over Boris Johnson's Brexit plan.
"The group remains on track to deliver the financial and operational improvements and targets that we set out at our full year 2018 results announcement on 20 March 2019, specifically the delivery of both an improved operating margin and a further increase, to approximately 85%, in dividend cover for the full year 2019," Attlee said.
Historical documents released recently by the US State Department show that the United States was the first country that Mr Attlee briefed on his plans to divide India.
His brotherTom, however, was a conscientious objector who suffered imprisonment for his pacifist stand.Who was right, Clem Attlee the serviceman or his brother the pacifist?
Attlee went radio to people overburden service And special mention will be made of ex-Berwick MP Beveridge, whose 1942 report provided the inspiration for Attlee's Welfare State which resulted in the setting up of the NHS in 1948.
According to John Bew's excellent biography, Attlee saw the planning for the peace had to begin before the conflict ended.
Attlee presided over this country at a time of real austerity and not only did his government pull us through, it set up the great NHS.
Her Labour-supporting mother suggested Attlee, but her grandfather said: "It has to be Wilson, because Attlee went along with the Cold War."
"There's no Churchill in the Tory Party to lead us and Jeremy Corbyn is no Clem Attlee. He falls far short of the leadership that Attlee displayed when the country pulled together to save our way of life in 1940" - Former Commons Speaker Baroness Boothroyd.
Earl Attlee is a Conservative peer - who is an hereditary peer because his grandfather was a Prime Minister.
To understand the significance of Attlee's assertion, we have to go back in time to 1945.
Author Helena Attlee has written other books on Italian gardens.
Winston Churchill's quip about Labour Leader Clem Attlee - "a modest man with much to be modest about" - said more about Churchill than about Attlee.