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A Long and Illustrious History › Britain Since 1945
Who became Prime Minister after Labour won a landslide majority in the 1945 general election?
- Winston Churchill
- Clement Attlee
- Ramsay MacDonald
- Harold Wilson
Why this is the correct answer
Labour won a landslide victory in July 1945, and Clement Attlee became Prime Minister despite Winston Churchill's popularity as a wartime leader. Voters wanted sweeping social reforms, and Attlee's government delivered the welfare state and the National Health Service.