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Clement Attlee (Labour) won the 1945 election

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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.

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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.