Clement Attlee took in Jewish child refugee who fled Nazis

Exclusive: Paul Willer, who lives in Gloucestershire, was sponsored by Labour leader

Clement Attlee, the Labour prime minister whose government founded the welfare state, looked after a child refugee who escaped from the Nazis in the months leading up to the second world war, it can be revealed.

The then leader of the opposition sponsored a Jewish mother and her two children, giving them the confidence and authorisation to leave Germany in 1939 and move to the UK.