Philip Rubenstein
Too Much To Do, Too Little Time, No Money: The Impossible Government of 1945
Summary
The outcome of Britain’s July 1945 election was a political earthquake. Two months earlier, Winston Churchill had announced the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. Confident that the British people would back their hero of the hour, they instead voted for Labour, led by Clement Attlee - a man Churchill had once called “a sheep in sheep’s clothing”. The nation wanted change. Could Attlee deliver?
Philip Rubenstein
Philip Rubenstein was director of the Parliamentary War Crimes Group, which, in the mid-to-late 1980s, campaigned to bring Nazi war criminals living in the UK to justice. Philip was also the founder-director of the Holocaust Educational Trust and played a role in getting the study of the Shoah onto the national school’s curriculum in the UK. These days, he works with family businesses, advising on governance and continuity from one generation to the next.