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Clement Attlee: enigmatic, out of time – and formidable

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Portrait of Clement Attlee (The National Archives reference INF 14/19)

Clement Attlee bore little resemblance to the contemporary politician. He had no time for the things that are now the stock-in-trade of all serious aspirants for high office: image and public relations. Attlee was so apparently unconcerned with presentation that …