1999-05-06T00:00:00
Popular myth has it that Aneurin Bevan resigned as health minister in response to chancellor Hugh Gaitskell introducing a prescription charge of 1 shilling per item. In truth, his 1951 resignation speech suggests his departure probably owed more to his fierce opposition to NATO's planned rearmament programme.
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