He started working in the mine at the age of 13: Who is Aneurin Bevan?

(1897-1960) British politician. He is one of the active leaders of the left wing of the British Labor Party. He was born on November 15, 1897, in Tredegar, South Wales. He died on July 6, 1960, in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He was the son of a poor Welsh miner. He started working in the mine at the age of 13. He studied at Central Labor College in London for two years. He joined the House of Commons in 1929 as a worker member from Ebbw Wale. He attracted attention as a good orator in the parliament and soon became influential in the left wing of the Labor Party. He married Jennie Lee, a member of parliament, in 1934. During World War II, he was heavily critical of Churchill's coalition government and the Labor Party. In 1939, he was temporarily expelled from the party's parliamentary group, as he joined the front movement against the government.

Aneurin "Nye" Bevan (15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's government in which he spearheaded the creation of the British National Health Service. He is also known for his wider contribution to the founding of the British welfare state. He was first elected as MP for Ebbw Vale in 1929 and used his Parliamentary platform to make a number of influential criticisms of Winston Churchill and his Conservative government during the Second World War. Before entering Parliament, Bevan was involved in miner's union politics and was a leading figure in the 1926 general strike. Bevan is widely regarded as one of the most influential left-wing politicians in British history.

Between 1940-1945 he directed the independent socialist newspaper Tribune. Returning to the parliament in 1945, he became the health minister in the Attlee Government established by the Labor Party. He developed housing and free health care programs and initiated legislation in this regard. He heavily criticized the support of the United States, which intervened in Korea in 1950, and the interruption of socialization efforts.

Bevan, who became minister of labor in January 1951, resigned from the government three months later in protest of the rearmament program that had caused massive cuts in social spending. In the following years, he led the left opposition within the Labor Party.

He ran for party leadership in 1955 but lost to Hugh Gaitskell. He was temporarily suspended from the party for the second time in the same year due to his harsh criticism of the disruptions in socialization efforts.

Bevan, who was elected vice president of the Labor Party in 1959, was also assigned to foreign affairs in the "Shadow Cabinet" formed by the then-opposition Labor Party. He wrote a book called In Place of Fear about his own life.

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