Aneurin Bevan Quotes
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.
Aneurin Bevan, 1897-1960, British Minister of Health (Labour), Description of Neville Chamberlain, 1869-1940, British Prime Minister (Conservative)
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Aneurin Bevan PC, often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician. Born into a working-class family in South Wales, he was the son of a coal miner. He left school at 13 and worked as a miner during his teens where he became involved in local union politics. He was named head of his Miners' Lodge when aged 19, where he frequently railed against management. He joined the Labour Party and attended Central Labour College in London. On his return to south Wales he struggled to find work, remaining unemployed for nearly three years before gaining employment as a union official, which led to him becoming a leading figure in the 1926 general strike.
