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Clement Attlee (Labour) won the 1945 election
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easysingle choice
Who became Prime Minister after Winston Churchill lost the 1945 general election?
Anthony Eden
Clement Attlee
Harold Macmillan
Aneurin Bevan
Explanation
Clement Attlee became Prime Minister after the Labour Party won the 1945 general election. Eden and Macmillan were later Conservative PMs, and Bevan was Health Minister, not PM.
mediumsingle choice
Under which Prime Minister was the welfare state established, including the NHS?
Winston Churchill
Clement Attlee
Harold Wilson
Margaret Thatcher
Explanation
The welfare state, including the NHS, was established under Clement Attlee's Labour government (1945–1951). Churchill had lost the 1945 election, Wilson and Thatcher were later PMs.