There were indeed jobs to be done, and he did them – leaving a postwar legacy that still lives on today. (Image: Getty)Attlee made an unlikely revolutionary – an ex-public schoolboy who had seen active service in the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign. Nye Bevan, a constant thorn in his side, was withering about his boss’s “suburban middle-class values". A few months later Nye Bevan resigned in protest at plans to charge for prescriptions. Shadow Home Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, who has written biographies of Bevan and Attlee, said Attlee’s status as the greatest Labour PM was “beyond doubt".

Source: Daily Mirror July 31, 2020 19:36 UTC