Clement Attlee
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"Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee", was a British Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from United Kingdom general election, 1945/1945 to United Kingdom general election, 1951/1951, and as the Labour Party (UK)#Leaders of the Labour Party since 1906/Leader of the Labour Party (UK)/Labour Party from Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 1935/1935 to Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 1955/1955.

Attlee was the first person to hold the office of Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, serving under Winston Churchill in the Churchill war ministry/wartime coalition government, before going on to lead the Labour Party to a landslide election victory in United Kingdom general election, 1945/1945 and a narrow victory in United Kingdom general election, 1950/1950. He became the first Labour Prime Minister ever to serve a full five-year term, as well as the first to command a Labour majority in Parliament of the United Kingdom/Parliament, and remains to date the longest-ever serving Leader of the Labour Party.

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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Already seething with social injustice.

The last of our enemies is laid low.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days.

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.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.