Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill has two successors. In 1945, Churchill was heavily defeated at the general election by Clement Attlee (1883 – 1967) and the Labour Party.
However in 1951 Labour was defeated in the general election and Churchill again became prime minister. His third government—after the wartime national government and the short caretaker government of 1945—would last until his resignation in 1955.
During this period he renewed what he called the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States, and engaged himself in the formation of the post-war order.
In 1953, Churchill suffered a stroke. Aware that he was slowing down both physically and mentally, Churchill retired as prime minister in 1955 and was succeeded by Anthony Eden, who had long been his ambitious protégée.
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