“There were few who thought him a starter,
Many who thought themselves smarter.
But he ended PM,
CH and OM,
an Earl and a Knight of the Garter.”

—  Clement Attlee

Kenneth Harris, Attlee (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, London, 1982)
Self-penned limerick.
1960s

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