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Attlee

Name: Attlee
Author: David Howell
ISBN: 9781904950646

by David Howell

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Overview

Attlee (Clement Attlee, 1883-1957, earl Attlee 1955) Labour politician, Prime Minister 1945-51. The first Labour Prime Minister with an absolute Common's majority. Attlee's post-war government enacted a broad programme of socialist legislation in spite of conditions of austerity in which rationing was actually extended. By the end of 1946 acts had been passed nationalising the Bank of England and creating the National Health Service. The railways, the mines and supply of gas and electricity soon followed into public ownership. Meanwhile he had been closely involved in the process of dismantling the British empire, with independence given to India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Burma.

About the Author:
Professor David Howell is Professor of Politics at the University of York

Synopsis

Former British Prime Minister best known for the creation of the National Health Service.

About the Author, David Howell

David Howell is Professor of Politics at the University of York, and one of Britain's leading experts in Labour Movement history. He is the editor of the Dictionary of Labour Biography and author of (amongst others) A Lost Left and Respectable Radicals: Studies in the Politics of Railway Trade Unionism.