Clement Attlee on his victorious 1945 campaign
The Labour leader praised Clement Attlee in his speech to Conference. Under a quiet exterior, the post-war Prime Minister was ruthlessly brilliant, says Francis Beckett
Everyone knows the Churchill quip about Clement Attlee – ‘A modest little man with plenty to be modest about.’
Almost no one knows Attlee’s typically terse and pronounless description of Churchill’s political style: ‘Trouble with Winston. Nails his trousers to the mast. Can’t get down.’
