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‘ONE LOT OF SINNERS OUT! ANOTHER LOT OF SINNERS IN!’ (Views from the Abbey 30)

In July 1945, when Clement Attlee had led the Labour Party to Victory in the General Election, the Rev Dr Howard Williams (who was the Minister of Blenheim Baptist Church, Leeds, at that time, and a life-long socialist himself) caused a stir with a ‘wayside pulpit’ notice outside the church which read: ‘CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT. […]