As the party that created the post-war welfare state, it worries about fragmenting the NHS.
Labour seized on that, accusing the chancellor of planning to unpick the post-war welfare state.
Supporters revere it as one of the principal pillars of the post-war welfare state.
Mr Turner's report has already been compared with that of William Beveridge in 1942, the founding charter of the post-war welfare state.
The polarisation in culture and wealth has undermined the alliance between the middle class and the working class that underpinned the post-war welfare settlement.
Quite a contrast with the post-war welfare state consensus which came out of an experience of battle and blitz shared across social classes.
Having taught UK social policy for almost 15 years, I speak the language: from William Beveridge's post-war welfare through to Tony Blair's Labour party.
Seventy years ago, Sir William Beveridge's report on Social Insurance and Allied Services, which laid the basis for the post-war welfare state, was published.
Ten years ago he was almost deselected as an MP by left-wingers in his constituency.His analysis of the post-war welfare settlement and the case for replacing it is distinctly Blairite.
Instead of the present arbitrary, cruel cuts, associated with deaths, suicide and despair and which undermine all the empowering aspirations of social care, this would be reform as the creators of the post-war welfare state understood it.
This policy would have allowed Britain to maintain its empire for generations to come, rather than become a shrivelled post-war welfare state at the margins of the European Union.
