"She sees you in her diaries as this fiery backbencher, and then you get in the cabinet and you're behaving (to her) differently; that is, you seemed to be more of a compromiser. She found this almost shocking. I don't find it surprising at all: "If you're going to be in the cabinet for God's sakes ... " I began. Michael finished my sentence: "You have to compromise." Michael added: "I sometimes said to Jill if I'd had the experience of being in the cabinet before I wrote it [the Bevan biography] I would have written somewhat differently. He was making compromises to get through the main things he wanted. He had to keep on his side people like Dalton and Ernest Bevin. Herbert Morrison was the one who was opposed to the way he [Bevan] was doing the Health Service and he had to be prepared to compromise."