Clement Attlee wrote later than he “matured into socialism” as a young man. The future prime minister’s mother Ellen was a Conservative, as were most members of the extended family. 3, 1883, the seventh of the eight children of barrister Henry Attlee, a supporter of Gladstone’s Liberal Party.
Yet my feeling was that he had rarely been given his due in public life, that he had suffered by the comparison with Churchill and it was time to tell the story of a more heroic Attlee.”Īttlee was born in suburban London on Jan. His government transformed Britain forever and he was centrally involved in the shaping of the post-war order. In his acclaimed biography “Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain,” John Bew writes: “As he walked down the middle of the hall he got one of the loudest and genuinely warm standing ovations of his political life.”Īttlee whispered to the aide: “Was that really necessary?” The reply came: “That should be normal, not unusual.”īew told the Echo: “Attlee led the Labour Party for 20 years, fought in the First World War – carried off the battlefield at Gallipoli, Mesopotamia and the Western Front – served as Deputy Prime Minister during the Second World and beat Winston Churchill emphatically at the 1945 general election.
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