Alan Johnson

It was Bevin, not Bevan, who was the real national treasure

Andrew Adonis pays tribute to Ernest Bevin, the powerful trades unionist and organiser, widely respected in his lifetime as a true man of the people

‘He was the embodiment of common sense. Yet I have never met a man in politics with as much imagination as he had, with the exception of Winston,’ said Clement Attlee of Bevin. Getty Images
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