Word: sevan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several exits and expulsions, he quit the Cabinet in protest against the government's decision to levy a small fee for patients' spectacles and dentures. Partly as a result, Labor was turned out of office in 1951; the electorate bit the hand that had fed it, with Sevan's false teeth...
Michael Foot, a close associate of Sevan's and since Nye's death in 1960 the M.P. from his old constituency of Ebbw Vale, has completed what is obviously a labor of love, with personal insights and inside information rarely available to a political biographer. He depicts, to be sure, a Nye in shining armor. He also makes clear that with Bevan's demise the fire went out of the belly of British socialism...