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Tony Blair gets the history wrong on Liberal & Labour links up to 1945

In Uncategorized on February 20, 2020 by kmflett

Sir William Beveridge

We must correct the defect from birth, which separated the Liberal reforming traditions of Lloyd George, Beveridge and Keynes from the Labour ones of Keir Hardie, Attlee, Bevin and Bevan.

Tony Blair, Kings College London, 20th February 2020

most of the intellectuals who had an important influence on the British Labour Movement between 1920 and 1945 were…social reformers within a Liberal tradition (J A Hobson, Beveridge,Boyd Orr)

E P Thompson,The Peculiarities of the English,1965

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