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Chapter One: Building Blocks

October 1945 10 Downing Street

Attlee sat at the centre of the cabinet table pouring over documents with a sense of melancholy. He was exhausted and slightly irritated. He had come into power promising so much and was now facing the full horror of rebuilding Britain.

He had served at the centre of power for 4 years first as Churchill's deputy then from '43 as Eden's No 2 following Winston's death from a stroke and now he was Prime Minister. The UK was devastated and now he had to lead the rebuilding. London and in particular Westminster and Whitehall had been razed to the ground. Downing Street was being held together by a combination of army surplus materials and ad-hoc construction.

Yet despite this catastrophic way of living Attlee had a vision of a new way of working. A new way of government. The title of the file in front of him read:

A New Way of Governing. The Plan for A British Capital Authority
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