Sue Nicholas wrote:I know who brought the NHS in . .
Do you know the full story?
"In February 1941 the Deputy Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Health recorded privately areas of agreement on post-war health policy which included "a complete health service to be available to every member of the community" and on 9 October 1941, the Minister of Health Ernest Brown announced that the Government proposed to ensure that there was a comprehensive hospital service available to everyone in need of it." He was a Liberal National.
"Sir Henry Urmston Willink, 1st Baronet PC, MC, KC (7 March 1894 - 20 July 1973), was a British politician and public servant.
He is best known for his service as Minister of Health from 1943-1945 in the wartime Coalition Government of the United Kingdom. He proposed many of the bases of the National Health Service later taken up by the Labour Party . ." He was a Conservative.
So it's not quite right for Labour to claim all the credit for bringing in the NHS, the plans were already being prepared by the wartime coalition as they recognised there would be a need after the war was over, and they were finalised by Labour after they won the next election.