Not disputing any of that, of course. It’s well known that Churchill’s Conservative Party accepted the Beveridge Report before even the Labour Party did.
However, NHS didn’t come into existence until after Churchill left power. Whether it would have done so had he won the election of 1945 is a topic for conjecture.
Of course. Just introducing the facts of history to the discussion.
While I probably went too far in calling him the “father” of socialized medicine in GB, he certainly dated the old gal.