Politics

[Lindylou]

Which party which Nye Bevan describe as vermin - I think it was the British Union of Fascists.  Am I right?

[Octavius]

The Tories.

At a private meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party in the early autumn of 1948 the subject of Bevan's 'vermin' reference came up. It will be all too well remembered that at an otherwise unimportant gathering at Manchester in July Bevan had recalled the burning hatred he had felt during his youth for the Tories. "So far as I am concerned," he had finished, "they are lower than vermin."

[bernardo]

I think he also used the phrase "deep abiding hatred".