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The Fruits of Victory

The lukewarm Conservative response to Beveridge's groundbreaking report triggered anger among many voters, who felt they had already paid - through wartime sacrifices - for a Welfare State, including, as this 1945 Philip Zec cartoon illustrates, 'proper medical attention'. The cartoon, originally published in the left-leaning Daily Mirror newspaper, was later re-used in a 1945 Labour campaign leaflet.

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