âI could not consent to the introduction into our national life of a device so alien to all our traditions as the referendum,â Clement Attlee said, âwhich has only too often been the instrument of Nazism and fascism.â In the spring of 1945 Winston Churchill was still prime minister, leading the wartime coalition, and Attlee, the Labour leader, was his deputy. A general election was overdue, after
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