The reality was, however, that Bevan did not need social media to find himself suspended from the Labour Party and, even in the 1950s, he was threatened with expulsion. The Webbs’ 1918 Constitution ...

When Labour swept to power in 1945, the party and the unions that funded it were considered two sides of the same coin. The trade union activist turned government minister Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan was ...

When the Labour Party won the general election in 1945 ... However, the new Minister for Health, Aneurin Bevan, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tredegar, had to work hard to overcome ...

The Labour Party formed the Government in July 1945. Clement Attlee became Prime Minister and Aneurin Bevan became Minister for Health. Between 1945 and 1951, the Labour Government passed a series ...

(credit: Wikimedia Commons) Aneurin Bevan was the leader of the left-wing Labour Party and the founder of the National Health Service (NHS) in the 1940s which proclaimed that it provided ...

Bevan’s political party, the Labour Party, came to power in the 1945 general election and, at that time, there was a general consensus for social reform, with healthcare as a top priority.

We also learn how Bevan's wife, Labour MP Jennie Lee, "sidelined her own ambitions to support her husband's career", said Cosslett in The Guardian. With the NHS currently crumbling, "the ...