(JTA) — Clement Attlee, who served as prime minister of Britain in the aftermath of World War II, housed a refugee child who escaped from the Nazis just months before the start of the war, a British ...

Attlee was a gifted manager, who showed it possible for modest politicians to be successful if they have decent ideas Winston Churchill once described Clement Attlee as a modest man with much to be ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clement Attlee, the Labour Party’s longest serving leader and prime minister from 1945–1951, belongs in the top tier of Britain’s ...

A 90-year-old man who was taken in as a child refugee by Clement Attlee after fleeing from the Nazis has met the former prime minister's granddaughter for the first time. Paul Willer said he and Mr ...

When Clement Attlee was once asked how he had felt on first entering 10 Downing Street, his reply was characteristically terse and modest. “There were jobs to be done,” he said. There were indeed jobs ...

One is the grandson of a schoolgirl who was the first official patient of the new NHS nearly 70 years ago. The other is the great-granddaughter of Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who oversaw the launch ...