In many ways we still live in a world of Attlee’s creation. His government of 1945-51 included Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison and Nye Bevan and was the most radical in history, giving us the NHS, National Insurance, NATO and the atomic bomb. Here was a man born in the governing class who devoted his life to the service of the poor who was carried off the battlefield three times in the First World War who stood shoulder to shoulder with Churchill at Britain’s darkest moment, and then triumphed over him at the general election of 1945. The story of Attlee is also much more dramatic than he himself ever made out – and not without an element of heroism.
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