After winning a 146 seat majority, he says "It will give heart to all those all the world over who believe in freedom, democracy and social justice"
A thread on the events of July 26th 1945
Votes were stored away in town hall basements while the service vote was shipped back to the country
Read the story of the campaign here
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At one point, his daughter went to the kitchen where she found their housekeeper making sandwiches:
‘I don’t know what the world’s coming to but I thought I might make some tea.’
‘I was disturbed to learn that moves had begun to propose me as leader of the party in place of Attlee. I promptly took the steps to see that these activities were stopped’.
‘The decision of the British people has been recorded in the votes counted today. I have therefore laid down the charge which was placed upon me in darker times’
The paper concluded that ‘the only gathering that could be called a crowd consisted of several dozen persons in Downing Street’
Reporting on the muted crowd, the paper claimed that ‘it would be difficult to imagine anything less like the herd instinct than the behaviour of Manchester crowds.
‘It’s all to the good. Let Labour get a thumping majority – the bigger the better. They’ll make such as mess of things that they’ll soon bet out, and they won’t get in again for forty years’.
‘There is not the slightest doubt that gratitude to Mr Churchill as war leader, admiration for his genius and reverence for his courage is shared by every party and every social class’
‘Labour has been fortunate in having a fine lot of candidates including a great many servicemen who will bring to the new House of Commons the spirit of the new age’