Aneuran Bevan Articles

It is impossible to read Citizen Clem, John Bew’s superb new biography of Labour’s most beloved leader, without drawing contrasts to the present plight of Clement Attlee's party. The prologue offers a fascinating exploration of Attlee’s place in present political...

Nye Bevan, Richard Crossman and Harold Wilson inspire leader of Crawley borough council Peter Lamb's modern-day battles for more and better housing, he tells chair of Progress Alison McGovern as she tours the country meeting the Labour leaders who are governing...

Time to put the last Labour government to bed Kitty Ussher, Jacqui Smith, Anne Begg, Stephen Twigg and Mike Gapes assess how Labour did The last Labour government was the Labour party’s greatest electoral success. It transformed our public realm and brought into being...

I interviewed Denis Healey as part of the research for my biography of Aneurin Bevan in February 2011. He immediately seized on Bevan’s remark that ‘the right kind of leader for the Labour party is a kind of dessicated calculating-machine’. While Clement Attlee was...