Showing posts with label Historical Glimpses of Clement Attlee. Show all posts
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Monday, July 11, 2016

Some More Historical Glimpses of Clement Attlee

Here he is talking before the UK general election of 23 February 1950:



In this election the Labour party won 1.5 million more votes than the Conservatives and received more votes than in the 1945 election, but owing to the first past the post system only won a majority of 5 seats.

A priceless anecdote from David Hunt, Private Secretary to Attlee: