Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Clement Attlee NPG x16589

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

In 1922, Attlee was elected Labour MP for Limehouse, and in 1935 he became leader of the Labour Party. He served as Deputy Prime Minister under Winston Churchill in the coalition wartime Government in 1940-5. In the 1945 election, Labour held its first overall majority in the House of Commons with a landslide victory. Attlee's government laid the foundations of the Welfare State and nationalised the Bank of England, transport, communications, coal, gas and electricity, and the iron and steel industries. He stepped down... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.