The man who created the National Health Service, revered Labour politician Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan, was being watched by MI5 in case he had Soviet sympathies, security files reveal today.
Mr Bevan is a hero of the Labour movement who went down in history as the ‘father of the NHS’ for giving birth to Britain’s cradle-to-grave service when he was Minister for Health in 1948.
Yet for more than 20 years – even when he was a serving Cabinet minister – Mr Bevan was kept under suspicion by MI5, according to papers released to the National Archives today.
He came to the attention of
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