Worth fighting for? Tommy Atkins enjoys a tasty Beveridge. In 1942, at the height of World War 2, the British coalition government produced a report on social welfare that contained the promise of a better society for everybody contributing to the war effort. The Beveridge Report recognised 5 Giant evils that needed to be dealt with; these evils were: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. The conclusions of this report were widely accepted across the political spectrum and its recommendations for producing the better world that people were supposedly fighting for would strike a chord amongst the general public that would resonate most strongly in the country's general election of 1945 . Only two months after VE Day , the British people overwhelmingly said yes to the Labour Party's promises to implement the recommendations of the Beveridge Report. The war leader Churchill and his Conservative party -