So also with Harold Wilson's great victory in 1964, and even Clement Attlee's landslide for the Labour Party in 1945.
In the war's aftermath, with the paint still fresh on Clement Attlee's welfare state, that put Smedley wildly out of step with popular opinion.
Attlee's 1945 victory was based on a subtle but firm shift to the left in wartime Britain.
But Clement Attlee's Labour government had to use the 1911 Act to get the Bill onto the statute book.
Attlee's government was defeated in 1951 by the Conservatives (under an ageing Churchill).
New Labour prefers to stress that the intellectual architects of Attlee's reforms were John Maynard Keynes and William Beveridge, both members of the Liberal Party.
Yes, he was asserting that Lady Thatcher had, like Labour's Clement Attlee before her, forged a new political consensus.
Earl Attlee acknowledged Cornwall's economic difficulties but argued that it was difficult to make comparisons between ferry services there and the "rather more complicated" services in Scotland.
Earl Attlee, the government's transport spokesman, said there were "strong incentives" for London Midland to put the problem right.
King George VI's worries over the government's precarious hold on power pushed Attlee into calling an election just 20 months after the country had last gone to the polls.
Churchill's attack on his trusted wartime deputy was immediately used by Attlee to highlight the difference between Churchill the war leader and Churchill the divisive political partisan.
Attlee was unable to subdue Nye Bevan - a heroic figure for the party's left - who quit the shadow cabinet and was almost expelled from the party a year later.
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