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

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 ...

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