Attlee becomes PM

[TheBrunswickian]

Is there any chance that Attlee could have defeated Churchill in a vote of no confidence and taken the top job? I know he tried on many occasions, but is there anywhere that a few different moves could have caused Churchill's fall?

 

[Cook]

There were various times in 1940 when Churchill might have been replaced, but not by Attlee; the Conservatives had more than double the seats in the Commons that Labour had. Churchill's replacement would have to either come from within the Conservative party or be someone who was trusted by them ahead of anyone in their own ranks, as Lloyd-George was after 1918. Attlee wasn't trusted by Tory members in that way; he owed his presence in the cabinet to Churchill alone.

 

[Saphroneth]

Is there any chance that Attlee could have defeated Churchill in a vote of no confidence and taken the top job? I know he tried on many occasions, but is there anywhere that a few different moves could have caused Churchill's fall?

1945 doesn't count?

 

[The Red]

He could probably have wielded the dagger but not the crown. The Labour Party was simply too numerically weak to unilaterally take power via parliamentary tactics alone.