The first stage of the National Conversation told us that people want to see the debate on welfare lifted out of the tired left-versus-right argument.
William Beveridge, architect of the Britain’s welfare state and the inspiration for the National Conversation on welfare, could perhaps best be described as a man apart. A life-long old-fashioned Liberal, Beveridge took an independent view on welfare.
More on Beveridge and his political and social roots in Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s article from The Guardian.
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