A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Thursday 5 July 1945. With the ongoing Second World War still fresh in the minds of voters, the opposition Labour Party led by Clement Attlee won a
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from
1945 United Kingdom general election
…led by Clement Attlee won a landslide victory with a majority of 146 seats, defeating the incumbent Conservative-led government under Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The result reflected widespread public concern about the future direction of the United Kingdom in the post-war period. The election's campaigning was…
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Jennie Spencer Churchill with her two sons, Jack (left) and Winston (right) in 1889
Churchill in the military dress uniform of the 4th Queen's Own Hussars at Aldershot in 1895
Winston Churchill posing in uniform in front of a backdrop depicting the Egyptian Pyramids, 1898.