Lib Dems: beware bringing the local touch to health Any pretence at providing a truly national service would be abandoned

1998-09-17T00:00:00

People queued in the street to buy copies of Sir William Beveridge's weighty tome on establishing the welfare state when it was published in 1942; the BBC broadcast its recommendations to Europe in 22 languages. The fanfare greeting the Liberal Democrats' nine-page policy document, Moving Ahead, was a little more ...