Clement Attlee
Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRSwas a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and the Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee was the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving under Winston Churchill in the wartime coalition government, before going on to lead the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in 1945 and...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth3 January 1883
war secret diplomacy
the Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
sleep garden wife
A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his neighbour's wife over the garden fence.
downing-street empty taxi
An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out of it.
rhyme publish
Can't publish. Don't rhyme, don't scan.
certainly large layer possibly
One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.
enemies laid last low
The last of our enemies is laid low