Bevan contended that his Welsh mining constituency did not send him to Parliament to "dress up" and declined to wear formal attire at Buckingham Palace functions.
He is notable for having run 160 miles in six days from Aneurin Bevan's statue in Cardiff to the Department of Health in London in protest against the Health and Social Care Bill.
The title is a quotation taken from a speech given by Welsh British Labour Party politician Aneurin Bevan.
It was Conway who became a mentor and teacher to the teenage Aneurin Bevan and he assisted Bevan in ridding himself of a disabling stammer.
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Aneurin (Nye) Bevan, Labour Minister responsible for the establishment of the National Health Service and his wife Jennie Lee also a Minister in the same Labour Government and a prime mover in the creation of the Open University, came to live at Wood Farm, Asheridge during the 1950s.
In 1957, Crossman joined Aneurin Bevan and Morgan Phillips in a controversial lawsuit for libel against The Spectator magazine, which had described the men as drinking heavily during a socialist conference in Italy.