Claims: Beveridge revisited: Simon Callow film celebrates the radical co-founder of Britain’s welfare state
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- title: Beveridge revisited: Simon Callow film celebrates the radical co-founder of Britain’s welfare state Source
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/sep/01/beveridge-revisited-simon-callow-film-celebrates-the-radical-co-founder-of-britains-welfare-state Source
- summary: Christine Edzard’s The Man With the Plan tours the country with a timely message about tackling want, disease, squalor, idleness and ignorance A new film that addresses issues fundamental to the new prime minister’s declared mission will star Simon Callow as a historical British political figure. The hero of The Man With the Plan is William Beveridge , who helped to lay the foundations of the postwar welfare state. It shows that the Liberal peer was much more radical than is usually assumed – an… Source
- published: Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:48 GMT Source