Echoes of Clement Attlee with first July election since 1945
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The Labour party gained a 145-seat majority in 1945.
The last general election held in July saw a Labour landslide in which Clement Attlee swept to power to oust Winston Churchill after the end of Second World War hostilities in Europe.