Catalogue Number
NMLH.1992.337
Object Name
Leaflet
Title
THE MAN FOR LIMEHOUSE. C.R. ATTLEE. KEEP ATTLEE IN/ GENERAL ELECTION... 1923 LIMEHOUSE DIVISION.
Place
Limehouse & London & England & UK
People
Attlee, Clement; Member of Parliament
Events
election & General & 1923
Description
Clement Attlee was the Prime Minister in the famous 1945 Labour government which set up the Welfare state and implemented a substantial nationalisation programme in the years betwen 1945 and 1951.
Attlee was a lecturer at the London School of Economics from 1913-1923, served in Gallipoli and France in the First World War, and from 1919-1920 was Mayor of the London borough of Stepney. He was returned as MP for Limehouse, London, in the 1923 General election, having been first elected in 1922, and was Under-Secretary for War in 1924. He was MP for Limehouse until 1950.
This election address states that Labour's ultimate aim is nationalisation of the land, mines, factories and the railways.
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