![]() ![]() That’s what Bew is very much aware of, and the reason why Citizen Clem exists – to shine a light on the man the public has forgotten. Even though he was so important to the Labour Party, to winning the war, to rebuilding the country after the war, and, perhaps, rebuilding the world, we don’t remember. We remember the NHS was created, as was the welfare state, and India was granted independence – but not Attlee. ![]() We remember Churchill, and Thatcher, and Blair – but not Attlee. When it comes to Clement Attlee and the post-war Labour government, Britain tends to forget. ![]() It’s a book which earned an awful lot of praise when it came out – not unfairly, I’ll add, because I really enjoyed reading this. If you don’t know much about Clement Attlee – which is entirely possible – then he was the Prime Minister of the first majority Labour government, from 1945-1951, and was Deputy Prime Minister under Winston Churchill during WW2. Hello! Today, we’re talking about Citizen Clem, a biography of Clement Attlee, written by John Bew. There were those who thought themselves smarter. ![]()
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