Grade Clement Attlee's performance as UK Prime Minister

[Blair]

A very strange figure- lead the most transformative government of the 20th Century but has received less attention and study than virtually all other post war PMs. He was much more of a chairman than a leader.

As Prime Minister I gave him an A-. He managed a lot of big egos very well in the Labour Government, although a fair amount of this was done to protect his own job- I wonder whether Morrison or Bevin would have done a better job as PM after ‘45.

He probably has the best economic record of any PM in that he transformed the economy without either kicking millions of people out of work, or leaving the economy too reliant on the financial sector. Likewise the reforms of his government in just 5 years were seriously impressive.