'Father of the NHS' and Labour icon Nye Bevan was monitored by MI5 for decades for signs of Soviet sympathies while leaders feared party was riddled with Communists, secret files show
He will always be known as the politician who created the NHS - but newly-released MI5 files now shed a different light on the revered Labour minister with his suspected links to the Soviets
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Daily Mail: 'Father of the NHS' and Labour icon Nye Bevan was monitored by MI5 for decades for signs of Soviet sympathies while leaders feared party was riddled with Communists, secret files show
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