Beveridge revisited: Simon Callow film celebrates the radical co-founder of Britain’s welfare state

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1. Tue, 1 September 2026

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     Beveridge revisited: Simon Callow film celebrates the radical co-founder of Britain’s welfare state

     Christine Edzard’s The Man With the Plan tours the country with a timely message about tackling want, disease, squalor, idleness and ignorance A new film that addresses issues fundamental to the new prime minister’s declared mission will star Simon Callow as a historical British political figure. The hero of The Man With the Plan is William Beveridge , who helped to lay the foundations of the postwar welfare state. It shows that the Liberal peer was much more radical than is usually assumed –...