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Owen Hatherley: Nye Bevan, 7 May 2015
Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan
by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds.
I.B. Tauris, 316 pp., £25, October 2014,978 1 78076 209 8 Show More
by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds.
I.B. Tauris, 316 pp., £25, October 2014,
“... Labour, the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party; during the war he was, according to Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds, a ‘one-man opposition’ to the coalition government (Churchill called him a ‘squalid nuisance’). This didn’t dissuade Attlee from appointing him as minister of health (he also had responsibility for housing) in 1945. After ... ”
