[Jeff Vader]

I thought clement atlee created the British welfare state?

[Leroy S. Mort]

See Churchill and Welfare:

Churchill did not support social engineering and never thought that government central planning could be smarter than the marketplace. He acknowledged the fact that higher taxes are not the road to prosperity, embraced a pre-Hayekian opposition to central economic planning, and thought that socialism and all its ilk was dangerous and immoral.