THE HIGH PRICE OF POLITICAL INTEMPERANCE
THE HIGH PRICE OF POLITICAL INTEMPERANCE

Summary/Abstract: More than 60 years ago the British socialist politician Aneurin Bevan, founder of Britain’s National Health Service, shocked the British political classes by describing Conservatives as “lower than vermin”. Throughout his life, the phrase, for which he refused to apologise, was repeated in virtually every assessment of his career and figured prominently in the obituaries which followed his death in 1960.

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