Seventy-nine years to the day that Keir Starmer, leader of Britain’s Labour Party, became prime minister, a previous Labour leader, Clement Attlee, had decisively defeated Winston Churchill’s Conservatives in the election of 1945, less than two months after the end of the war in Europe. It was a moment of fundamental importance in British history: Churchill, the man who was to a very large degree responsible for the Allied victory in the war, was out, replaced by Attlee.
