![]() ![]() ![]() The Beveridge report’s 75 th anniversary is an important progresisve milestone.This edition assesses how well the Beveridge consensus has held, and how to best honour that legacy. It was not easy, nor perfect, but it was a systematic attempt to build a welfare state for all, in contrast to the ‘ambulance state’ that had gone before. It fundamentally changed peacetime Britain and the fortunes of working class people in the country. The Labour government in 1945 was quick to set about implementing William Beveridge’s report on the ‘five giants’ that faced pre- and post-world war two Britain. Every Labour government has taken on the vested interests and put itself at the disposal of the British people and this goal to decrease inequality. It is what has driven our movement since its foundation. Tackling inequality is at the very heart of the centre-left and Labour project. The one ‘missing giant’ from the founding text of the welfare state was how we deal with care in our society, argues our editorial ![]()
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