Tuesday, 3 April 2018

Not while I'm alive he ain't

Unfortunately for Bevan, many of his own party colleagues detested him. Told that Bevan was his own worst enemy, the powerful trade unionist and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin commented: 'Not while I'm alive he ain't.' Herbert Morrison called him 'wicked', and Hugh Dalton wrote of his making 'a violent speech, of nauseating egoism and sweating with hatred'.

D. Sandbrook, Never had it so good (2005), 55-56

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