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A PLAY about the Labour prime minister whose government introduced the NHS and the welfare state has been heralded as a clear lesson for today’s party leadership.
Clement Attlee – the Play, by biographer Francis Beckett, will show at Liverpool’s Epstein Theatre on September 26 and 27, when the Labour Party’s conference takes place in the city.
Attlee became PM with the landslide election of a Labour government in 1945 after the end of World War II and served until 1951.
The party’s agenda for change included the creation of the NHS under health secretary Nye Bevan and the welfare state, ensuring free education for all and nationalising key industries such as the railways.
Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: “The lesson of Francis Beckett’s brilliant and entertaining play is that Labour is at its best when it’s bold, when it sets out to make people’s lives better, when it harnesses the idealism of its supporters, as Attlee and Nye Bevan did.”
Shows start at 8pm.
