Stafford Cripps became President of the Board of Trade, Herbert Morrison was given the post of Deputy Prime Minister and given overall control of Labour's nationalisation programme, Aneurin Bevan became Minister of Health, and Ellen Wilkinson, the only woman to serve in Attlee's government, became Minister of Education.

Attlee's first Health Secretary, Aneurin Bevan, fought against the general disapproval of the medical establishment by creating the British National Health Service, a publicly funded healthcare system offering treatment free at the point of use.

The government was less successful in housing, which was the responsibility of Aneurin Bevan.

Aneurin Bevan, the architect of the National Health Service ( NHS ), resigned to protest against the new charges for " teeth and spectacles " introduced by the budget.

The party split between its right wing, led by Hugh Gaitskell, and its left, led by Aneurin Bevan.

) At one time, Attlee had favoured Aneurin Bevan to succeed him as leader, but this became problematic after Bevan split the party.

B. Priestley on " Britain and the Nuclear Bombs ", which was critical of Aneurin Bevan for changing his mind about nuclear weapons and ceasing to advocate unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain.

Late in 1942, he started writing regularly for the left-wing weekly Tribune directed by Labour MPs Aneurin Bevan and George Strauss.

Tuberculosis was diagnosed and the request for permission to import streptomycin to treat Orwell went as far as Aneurin Bevan, now Minister of Health.

Among the books he authored are Guilty Men ( an attack on Neville Chamberlain and others for the policy of appeasement ), a biography of Jonathan Swift ( The Pen and the Sword, 1957 ) and a biography of Aneurin Bevan.

On the recommendation of Aneurin Bevan, Foot was soon hired by Lord Beaverbrook to work as a writer on his Evening Standard.

Until 1957, he was the most prominent ally of Aneurin Bevan, who had taken Cripps's place as leader of the Labour left, though Foot and Bevan fell out after Bevan renounced unilateral nuclear disarmament at the 1957 Labour Party conference.

He wrote several books, including highly regarded biographies of Aneurin Bevan and H. G. Wells.

In 1951, British Health Minister Aneurin Bevan expressed the view that, " It is probably true that Western Europe would have gone socialist after the war if Soviet behaviour had not given it too grim a visage.

* July 6 – Aneurin Bevan, Welsh politician ( b. 1897 )

** Aneurin Bevan resigns from the British Labour Party's " shadow cabinet ".

( Includes texts by William Morris, George Bernard Shaw, GDH Cole, Richard Crossman and Aneurin Bevan.

Health care services in Monmouth, as part of the National Health Service, are provided by the Aneurin Bevan Health Board.

Wilson was becoming known as a left-winger and joined Aneurin Bevan and John Freeman in resigning from the government in April 1951 in protest at the introduction of National Health Service ( NHS ) medical charges to meet the financial demands imposed by the Korean War.

Despite his earlier association with the left-wing Aneurin Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, who was considered the right-of-centre candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership He then launched an opportunistic but unsuccessful challenge to Gaitskell in November 1960, in the wake of the Labour Party's 1959 defeat, Gaitskell's controversial attempt to ditch Labour's commitment to nationalisation in the shape of the Party's Clause Four, and Gaitskell's defeat at the 1960 Party Conference over a motion supporting Britain's unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Aneurin " Nye " Bevan PC ( pronounced ; ; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960 ) was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1959 until his death in 1960.

The budget caused a split in the government and caused him to fall out with Aneurin Bevan who resigned over this issue, seeing the prescription charges as a blow to the principle of a free health service.

File: Bevan nla. pic-vn3646742. jpg | Aneurin Bevan British Labour Party politican who created the National Health Service

Social democratic Reformist Marxist Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health in the first post-war Labour government, who introduced the UK National Health Service ( NHS ), also takes the view that welfare programmes, such as health care which is free at the point of use for all, are concessions forced on capitalism by the struggles of the working class and a " pure Socialism " embryo of the new socialist society gestating within capitalist society ( see section ' Post-war European countries ' above ).

At the outset some critics pointed out that Foundation Trusts go against the spirit of the principles laid out by Aneurin Bevan ( who founded the NHS ).

It was the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, who was responsible for the introduction of the British National Health Service ( NHS ), and who in the 1920s was involved in the management of Tredegar General Hospital.

Aneurin Bevan who launched the Health Service in 1948 said "" All I am doing is extending to the entire population of Britain the benefits we had in Tredegar for a generation or more.

His political commitment included assigning implementation responsibility to Baroness Lee, the widow of Aneurin Bevan, the charismatic leader of Labour's left wing whom Wilson had joined in resigning from the Attlee cabinet.

In 1956, for example, leading British Labour Party politician and author Anthony Crosland claimed that capitalism had been abolished in Britain and socialism established, although others, such as Welshman Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health in the first post-war Labour government, disputed the claim that Britain was a socialist state.

He was replaced as shadow foreign secretary by Aneurin Bevan and felt that his political ambitions had been frustrated.

His time as leader was also characterised by factional infighting between the ' Bevanite ' left of the Labour party led by Aneurin Bevan, and the ' Gaitskellite ' right.

Under the Attlee Labour government housing was attached to the portfolio of Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, whose attention was concentrated on his responsibilities for the National Health Service.

The Labour left-winger Aneurin Bevan described the ILP's disaffiliation as a decision to remain " pure, but impotent ", and in the long run his criticism was arguably vindicated, as once outside of the Labour Party structure the ILP's political influence went into decline.

Indicative of his centrist leanings, Macleod established good personal relations with several of his Labour opposite numbers, including both Aneurin Bevan and James Callaghan, even though he clashed with Callaghan numerous times at the dispatch box while serving as Shadow Chancellor in the 1960s ( by contrast, he did not get on with Callaghan's successor, Roy Jenkins, after the November 1967 government reshuffle, considering him vain and arrogant ).

In 1936 Gallacher joined members of the Labour Party such as Stafford Cripps and Aneurin Bevan in arguing for giving military help to the Spanish Popular Front government fighting against Franco's Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War.

Labour lost office in 1951 ( despite polling 200, 000 more votes than the Conservatives ), and after Clement Attlee retired as leader in 1955, he was succeeded by the figurehead of the " right-establishment " Hugh Gaitskell, against Aneurin Bevan.

Aneurin Bevan, the " father " of the National Health Service, represented Ebbw Vale as a Labour Party Member of Parliament ( MP ) in Parliament from the 1929 general election.

In the UK Herbert Morrison said " Socialism is what the Labour government does ", whereas Aneurin Bevan argued that socialism requires that the " main streams of economic activity are brought under public direction ", with an economic plan and workers ' democracy.

The invasion of Russia by the Allies, their trade embargo and backing for the White forces fighting against the Red Army in the civil war in the Soviet Union was cited by Aneurin Bevan, the leader of the left-wing in the Labour Party, as one of the causes of the Russian revolution's degeneration into dictatorship.

That year, he lost the election for Treasurer of the Labour Party to Aneurin Bevan.

Aneurin ( Nye ) Bevan, Labour Minister responsible for the establishment of the National Health Service and his wife Jennie Lee also a Minister in the same Labour Government and a prime mover in the creation of the Open University, came to live at Wood Farm, Asheridge during the 1950s.

At the 1970 general election, Cormack stood for the seat of Cannock, and this time was elected, narrowly defeating the incumbent Labour MP Jennie Lee ( the wife of the founder of the National Health Service, Aneurin Bevan ).

As well as Cripps and Strauss, its board comprised the Labour MPs Aneurin Bevan and Ellen Wilkinson, Harold Laski of the Left Book Club and the veteran left-wing journalist and former-ILPer H. N. Brailsford.