Mr Blair excoriated the Tories for their past opposition to women's votes and a national healthservice, and their present defence of fox-hunting, General Pinochet, and hereditary peers.
Something else of national significance happened in July 1948: Britain's National HealthService opened for business, and immediately, doctors were overrun by women with completely prolapsed wombs, toothless men, shortsighted children millions of people who had lived with inconveniences and minor disabilities that made their lives more difficult, but who couldn't previously afford to correct them.