[FONT="]Here in Britain it was very different. Our democratic Left had grown out of the non-conformist Christian values of the Welsh valleys and the self-help activism of the Rochdale Pioneers, which coalesced to form the Labour Party. Later, led by Attlee and Bevin, Labour became a bulwark of the wartime coalition led by Churchill.
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[FONT="]As the Coalition broke up at the end of the Second World War, Attlee won the 1945 general election. That Labour Government did not only found that lasting institution of post war Britain, the NHS. It led the moves to create Nato, embarked on the rebuilding of our armed forces and the creation of our independent nuclear weapons as Stalin's communist regime threatened the West with nuclear war.[/FONT]