War on Terror: Tory peer called up.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  March 8, 2003 ;     103 words ...Tory frontbencher and Territorial Army officer Earl Attlee has been called up to serve in the Gulf, a party colleague disclosed yesterday. Earl Attlee, the 46-year-old grandson of the former Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee, is a major in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical ...

DAY OF THE DAY.(Features)

The Mirror (London, England);  July 26, 2006 ;     10 words ...Clement Attlee sweeps to power with Labour after the war in 1945

Earl Attlee, 63 Son of British prime minister

The Boston Globe;  July 28, 1991 ;     142 words ......of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, died early yesterday, a...spokesman said. He was 63. Earl Attlee was a deputy whip in the...Social Democratic Party, said Earl Attlee was a conscientious member...Social Democratic Party. Earl Attlee, who became the second earl...

Movers and shakers line up to support main parties

The Independent - London;  March 18, 1997 ;     580 words ......out for the Tories have been Earl Attlee, grandson of the Labour prime minister Clement Attlee, who crossed the floor in...year. Coming out for Major: Earl Attlee, grandson of the Labour PM Clement Attlee; Frank Bruno, former boxer...

Baroness Chalker quits Conservative front bench

The Independent - London;  June 10, 1997 ;     268 words ......party's front bench, it was disclosed last night. And Earl Attlee, grandson of the post-war Labour premier Clement Attlee, has joined it as a Whip, specialising on defence, transport...20 years on front benches in both Houses of Parliament. Earl Attlee, a crossbencher until his ...

Parliament: Hague appoints five peers to team

The Independent - London;  December 9, 1998 ;     248 words ......HAGUE turned to the grandson of the former Labour prime minister Clement Attlee last night as he made five appointments to his depleted frontbench in the House of Lords. Earl Attlee, a hereditary peer who switched from the independent cross benches...

Could old tactic make Bush history?

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 23, 1991 ;     454 words ......next year. The name of the politician? Clement Attlee. Pretty heart-stopping news, don't...postwar America - post gulf war, that is. Clement Attlee was the leader of Britain's Labor Party...thinking that you can win, you point to - Clement Attlee. Just as every trailing candidate ...

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.(Letters)

Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales);  November 6, 2008 ;     19 words ...Byline: Clement Attlee Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

British Lord, Social Democrat Earl Attlee Dies

The Washington Post;  July 28, 1991 ;     238 words ...Earl Attlee, 63, a founding member of Britain's Social Democratic Party and the only son of former Labor Party Prime Minister Clement Attlee, died yesterday at a hospital here after a stroke. Lord Attlee was a deputy whip in the House of Lords...

Veteran Benn in attack on Blair.

Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  February 10, 1998 ;     309 words ......systematically repudiating the beliefs of Clement Attlee - the greatest leader the Labour Party...Prime Minister. Mr Benn said: Today all Clement Attlee stood for is being systematically repudiated...of tax and spend, never to return. Clement Attlee was a signatory of the United ...

Attlee's ailments.(News)

Birmingham Mail (England);  September 29, 2006 ;     109 words ...NOTEBOOKS from Clement Attlee's Cabinet meetings released for the first time today reveal that the issues troubling the Government...had underestimated the number of beds they needed, and ruined his Budget. CAPTION(S): PM... Clement Attlee.

Veteran Benn in attack on Blair

Evening Mail;  February 10, 1998 ;     310 words ......systematically repudiating the beliefs of Clement Attlee - "the greatest leader the Labour Party...Minister. Mr Benn said: "Today all Clement Attlee stood for is being systematically repudiated...of tax and spend, never toreturn. "Clement Attlee was a signatory of the United ...

Clement Attlee; the man who built the welfare state.

The Economist (US);  November 11, 1989 ;     700+ words ...CLEMENT ATTLEE CLEMENT ATTLEE was smaller than life. Physically unimpressive, he had all the charisma, and something of the appearance, of a gerbil. Nor could he call on wordpower to compensate. He had a reedy voice and a sparse vocabulary. One...

Swift, John: Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in...

History: Review of New Books;  March 22, 2002 ;     321 words ...Swift, John Labour in Crisis: Clement Attlee and the Labour Party in Opposition, 1931-1940 New York...July 2001 Labour in Crisis seeks to examine the career of Clement Attlee and the history of the British Labor Party during the 1930s...

On This Day.(Features)

The Birmingham Post (England);  January 3, 2003 ;     208 words ...1883: Birth of British statesman Clement Attlee: One of our greatest politicians, Clement Attlee was Britain's post-war Prime Minister (1945-51), leading a Labour government responsible for ground-breaking reforms that included establishing the...