Thread by @BenChu_, This is very true from Declan -

This is very true from Declan - "Beveridge" has become a shorthand for progressive reform in contemporary debate - it's important to look at what he actually proposed in that report and why - and what wasn't actually implemented... https://twitter.com/djmgaffneyw4/status/1319607722061553669

https://twitter.com/djmgaffneyw4/status/1319607722061553669

Crucially in the post-war UK system the rate of National Insurance jobless benefit was never set high enough to prevent poverty (despite what Beveridge wanted) which meant that the separate means tested system often kicked in and never withered away (as Beveridge expected)....

...there's more on this in the @indypremium piece... https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/boris-johnson-beveridge-welfare-state-universal-credit-coronavirus-b1177947.html

The welfare state after coronavirus – Back to Beveridge’s WW2 reforms?

The social reformer recognised that the Second World War had provided a transformative shock and seized his opportunity. The coronavirus pandemic could provide another, writes Ben Chu

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/boris-johnson-beveridge-welfare-state-universal-credit-coronavirus-b1177947.html

....but Noel Whiteside, the historian at Warwick, is extremely detailed and useful on all this: https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-politique-2014-3-page-24.htm

The Beveridge Report and Its Implementation: a Revolutionary Project?

Cet article propose de réinterpréter le célèbre rapport Beveridge de 1942 et d’en réévaluer le contenu. Sur bien des aspects, la réputation du texte comme une étape clé de la construction d’un...

https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-politique-2014-3-page-24.htm

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