An English bibliotaph of fifty years residence in Wales pontificates about politics (slightly off-message), films and trivia. Acting secretary of Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats. Candidate for Neath in the Westminster elections of 1997 & 2017 and the Welsh general election of 2016.
Saturday, 22 August 2009
Beveridge, Churchill and the NHS
In a detailed rebuttal of New Labour spin that the National Health Service was the sole creation of Aneurin Bevan, Seth Thévoz, a student of modern history at King’s College London, explains that not only was the first public mention of a National Health Service contained in the report of the commission chaired by Liberal William Beveridge, the Conservatives were also onside.
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