Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
The NHS is the result of an investigation into health care which resulted in a cross party report known as the Beveridge report. One of the prime movers in this was Churchill who I think was then sitting as a Liberal MP.
Good as he was Bevan just happened to be the health minister who actioned it but it would have happened anyway. There were not really any alternatives.
Yet Churchill and the Tories voted against implementation of that report and the creation of the NHS.