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While the horrors of World War IIWorld War II were still raging, a British politician named Rab Butler was responsible for a radical change in policy towards education with the government promising its people free secondary education and more kinds of further and [75]higher education. We’ll see in just a couple of chapters just how well the government kept its promise.

from the cradle to the graveFor the time after the horrors of World War IIWorld War II, a British economist and social reformer named William BeveridgeBeveridge, William proposed a radical change in policy towards government’s role in helping the unemployed, the sick, and the retired. In effect more than any other person Beveridge brought the welfare statewelfare state to Britain. Although ChurchillChurchill, Winston warned the British not to expect too much from their government after the end of the war, he called himself a supporter of a “national compulsory insurance for all classes, for all purposes from the cradle to the grave” ( 3). Partly because the LabourLabour Party was even more forceful than Churchill in promising social reform including implementation of the Beveridge Report, Labour won the election, and Churchill, the Conservative prime minister who won the war, was defeated by Clement AtleeAtlee, Clement, the first Labour Prime Minister to also have a majority in the House of CommonsHouse of Commons.