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Clement Attlee
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from to
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Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee (3 January &#;&#; 8 October ) was a British statesman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from to and Leader of the Labour Party from to Attlee was Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime coalition government under Winston Churchill, and Leader of the Opposition on three occasions: from to , briefly in and from to He remains the longest serving Labour leader.
Attlee was born into an upper middle class family, the son of a wealthy London solicitor. After attending Haileybury College and the University of Oxford, he practised as a barrister. The volunteer work he carried out in London's East End exposed him to poverty, and his political views shifted leftwards thereafter.
He joined the Independent Labour Party, gave up his legal career, and began lecturing at the London School of Economics; with his work briefly