 After leaving Socialist Fellowship , Bessie moved steadily towards the centre and right of her party , distancing herself from colleagues with whom she had earlier found common cause . She did not support Aneurin Bevan when he resigned from the government in April 1951 over the introduction of National Health Service charges , and later asserted that , by making dissidence fashionable , Bevan had " weakened the [ Labour ] National Executive to the point where it could no longer deal effectively with infiltrating Trotskyists and Communists " . In 1955 her opposition to the Bevanite faction was such that she supported efforts by Hugh Gaitskell and Herbert Morrison to have Bevan expelled from the party . She regularly attacked the Labour left at party conferences , and in 1952 was involved in scuffles with other delegates after the unexpected success of Bevanite candidates in the NEC elections . 
