Clement Attlee - the brave surburban revolutionary who rebuilt postwar Britain

mirror.co.uk:

When Clement Attlee was once asked how he had felt on first entering 10 Downing Street, his reply was characteristically terse and modest. “There were jobs to be done,” he said.

There were indeed jobs to be done, and he did them – leaving a postwar legacy that still lives on today. It is 75 years since he became Prime Minister, beating Winston Churchill in the general election in July 1945.

For the next six years he led a government that would transform the country and lay the foundations on which so much that we value in this country still rest.

These achievements were all the more remarkable given that they were forged in the gloom of an economy broken by war and with a Cabinet riven by rivalries, distrust and raging egos.