"If the Labour Party is not going to be a Socialist Party, I don't want to lead it."
— Aneurin Bevan

January 1, 1970

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Members of the Parliament of the United KingdomHumanistsAtheistsLabour Party (UK) politiciansDemocratic socialists
Original Language: English

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Speech in the Albert Hall, Manchester (4 February 1956), quoted in Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan, Volume Two: 1945–1960 [1973] (1975), p. 498