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Clems' vision.

Link. This is a continuation of Halifax.

At this point, Labour had won the 1945 General Election with a large majority. Lord Halifax had resigned as Prime Minister. An uprising was in place in India. The Soviet Union and the United States were busy in Japan, and were busy setting the balance for the Cold War.

It was against this international background that Attlee came to power. He came to office on a promise of a New Britain. A vision of a National Health Service, of a reformed welfare state. He wanted to rebuild Britain.

Thus Labour came to office. Unlike Halifax, it will not just be the tale of an individual but of the country over the period of the first Labour Government of the post-war period.

And so it begins.

Clement Attlee awoke on the moring of Friday the 13th May, 1945 to find that on the back of a large popular mandate, his Labour Party had swept to power on a mandate of change.

It was on the back of this that he announced his intention to build a new country, to fulfill the promise of a better nation for the citizens of the island.

The new Government was quick to begin implementing its policies. The next five years would change Britain forever.
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