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He was also the first UK Prime Minister to admit to not believing in any sort of God.
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When Lansbury resigned barely a month before the next general election, Attlee was left holding the reins through the campaign, and did a creditable job of bringing the party back from the brink of extinction. While he was challenged for the party leadership after the election by Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood, Attlee ultimately emerged as the new permanent leader after a backroom deal with Greenwood, who subsequently replaced him as deputy leader. Attlee would lead the party continuously for 20 years (from October 1935 to December 1955)--the longest-serving Labour leader by a country mile[[note]](Not counting Keir Hardie, who had a combined 15 years as leader of the party and its predecessor, the Labour Representation Committee, the next longest two, UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson and UsefulNotes/TonyBlair, served 13 years apiece)[[/note]]. Whilst he was Leader of the Opposition, he opposed UsefulNotes/NevilleChamberlain's policy of appeasement, at times viciously, and called the Munich agreement "a victory for brute force." He formed a Coalition government with Churchill and served in the war cabinet as Deputy Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945. Then in 1945, when the national unity government broke up and an election was held in July 1945, Labour unexpectedly won a landslide victory. While voters respected Churchill's war record, they were sceptical about his ability to govern in peacetime and were won over by Labour's plans to rebuild the economy and create a welfare state.
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When Lansbury resigned barely a month before the next general election, Attlee was left holding the reins through the campaign, and did a creditable job of bringing the party back from the brink of extinction. While he was challenged for the party leadership after the election by Herbert Morrison and Arthur Greenwood, Attlee ultimately emerged as the new permanent leader after a backroom deal with Greenwood, who subsequently replaced him as deputy leader. Attlee would lead the party continuously for 20 years (from October 1935 to December 1955)--the longest-serving Labour leader by a country mile[[note]](Not counting Keir Hardie, who had a combined 15 years as leader of the party and its predecessor, the Labour Representation Committee, the next longest two, UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson and UsefulNotes/TonyBlair, served 13 years apiece)[[/note]]. Whilst he was Leader of the Opposition, he opposed UsefulNotes/NevilleChamberlain's policy of appeasement, at times viciously, and called the Munich agreement "a victory for brute force." He formed a Coalition government with Churchill and served in the war cabinet as Deputy Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945. Then in 1945, when the national unity government broke up and an election was held in July 1945, Labour unexpectedly won a landslide victory. While voters respected Churchill's war record, they were sceptical about his ability to govern in peacetime and were won over by Labour's plans to rebuild the economy and create a welfare state.
state. It didn't help that Churchill, against the advice of basically everyone, made a catastrophically ill-judged election broadcast, in which he foolishly claimed that a Labour government would need to suppress dissent by means of "some sort of Gestapo." Attlee made a broadcast the following night in which he calmly rebutted everything Churchill had said, making Churchill seem partisan and near-hysterical.
