Clement Attlee Articles

Labour’s stance on Trident is clear, again —Last month (October), new shadow defence secretary Nia Griffith recommitted Labour to maintaining its long-standing policy in favour of maintaining Trident, our national nuclear deterrent. With it, she restated Labour’s...

Labour’s six-year slide damages not just the party but the country My first day working at Progress, Monday 4 January 2010, saw us catapulted into the general election campaign. Wasting no time in the early new year, David Cameron displayed his will to win by...

There we have it. As most people expected from the moment he was allowed on the ballot, Jeremy Corbyn has been re-elected as leader of the Labour party - securing an even larger percentage of the vote than last year's election. For many Labour members it feels like...

It is impossible to read Citizen Clem, John Bew’s superb new biography of Labour’s most beloved leader, without drawing contrasts to the present plight of Clement Attlee's party. The prologue offers a fascinating exploration of Attlee’s place in present political...