Editing Bevanism (section)

== Split over nuclear disarmament ==
Later in his political career, Bevan began advocating the maintenance of [[Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom|Britain's nuclear deterrent]], against those who became associated with the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] (CND), saying that without them a future British foreign secretary would be going "naked into the conference chamber."<ref>{{cite news |title=Your favourite Conference Clips |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/the_daily_politics/6967366.stm |website=BBC Daily Politics |date=3 October 2007 |access-date=29 March 2016}}</ref> This split the Bevanites; many, such as leading Bevanite<ref>{{cite news |author=[[John Beavan, Baron Ardwick]] |title=Michael Foot: Writer and politician who rose to become leader of the Labour Party |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-foot-writer-and-politician-who-rose-to-become-leader-of-the-labour-party-1915727.html |work=The Independent |date=4 March 2010 |access-date=29 March 2016}}</ref> Michael Foot, continued to oppose Britain's nuclear weapons, with [[The longest suicide note in history|Labour's 1983 manifesto]] under Foot's leadership of the party calling for [[unilateral nuclear disarmament]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Vaidyanathan |first=Rajini |title=Michael Foot: What did the 'longest suicide note' say? |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8550425.stm |access-date=29 March 2016 |publisher=[[BBC News]] |date=4 March 2010}}</ref>