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Attlee ministries
Cabinet of the United Kingdom
1945–1950
1950–1951
Attlee (1950)
Date formed
First: 26 July 1945 (1945-07-26)
Second: 23 February 1950 (1950-02-23)
Date dissolved
First: 23 February 1950 (1950-02-23)
Second: 26 October 1951 (1951-10-26)
People and organisations
Monarch
George VI
Prime Minister
Clement Attlee
Prime Minister's history
1945–1951
Deputy Prime Minister
Herbert Morrison
Total no. of members
243 appointments
Member party
Labour Party
Status in legislature
Majority
393 / 640 (61%)
(1945)
315 / 625 (50%)
(1950)
Opposition party
Conservative Party
Opposition leader
Winston Churchill
History
Election(s)
1945 general election
1950 general election
Outgoing election
1951 general election
Legislature term(s)
38th UK Parliament
39th UK Parliament
Predecessor
Churchill caretaker ministry
Successor
Third Churchill ministry
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Clement Attlee
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Labour Leader
1935 general election
1935 leadership election
Norway Debate
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1945 general election
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Potsdam Conference
National Insurance
National Coal Board
Anglo-American loan
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Partition of India
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Post-Prime Minister
1955 general election
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Clement Attlee was invited by King George VI to form the Attlee ministry in the United Kingdom in July 1945,[1] succeeding Winston Churchill as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Labour Party had won a landslide victory at the 1945 general election, and went on to enact policies of what became known as the post-war consensus, including the establishment of the welfare state and the nationalisation of some industries.[2] The government's spell in office was marked by post-war austerity measures, the violent crushing of pro-independence and communist movements in Malaya, the grant of independence to India, the engagement in the Cold War against Soviet Communism as well as the creation of the country's National Health Service (NHS).
Attlee went on to win a narrow majority of five seats at the 1950 general election, forming the second Attlee ministry.[3] Just twenty months after that election, Attlee called a new election for 25 October 1951 in an attempt to gain a larger majority, but was narrowly defeated by the Conservative Party, sending Labour into a 13-year spell in opposition.
^Jefferys 2014, p. 7.
^Reeves, Rachel, and Martin McIvor. "Clement Attlee and the foundations of the British welfare state". Renewal: a Journal of Labour Politics 22#3⁄4 (2014): 42+. online Archived 15 December 2018 at the Wayback Machine
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