The Guardian

====Post-war====
The paper's then editor, [[A. P. Wadsworth]], so loathed Labour's left-wing champion [[Aneurin Bevan]], who had made a reference to getting rid of "Tory Vermin" in a speech "and the hate-gospellers of his entourage" that it encouraged readers to vote Conservative in the [[1951 United Kingdom general election|1951 general election]] and remove [[Clement Attlee|Clement Attlee's]] post-war Labour government.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Manchester Guardian|author=Leader|date=22 October 1951|title=Time for change?}}</ref> The newspaper opposed the creation of the [[National Health Service]] as it feared the state provision of healthcare would "eliminate selective elimination" and lead to an increase of congenitally deformed and feckless people.<ref>{{cite book |title=Austerity Britain 1945–1951 |first=David |last=Kynaston |author-link=David Kynaston |publisher=Bloomsbury |location=London |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7475-9923-4 |page=285}}</ref>

''The Manchester Guardian'' strongly opposed military intervention during the 1956 [[Suez Crisis]]: "The Anglo-French ultimatum to Egypt is an act of folly, without justification in any terms but brief expediency. It pours petrol on a growing fire. There is no knowing what kind of explosion will follow."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jul/10/pressandpublishing.egypt | title=Courage under fire | work=The Guardian | date=10 July 2006 | access-date=5 March 2014 | author=Rusbridger Alan | archive-date=30 August 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830063430/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/jul/10/pressandpublishing.egypt | url-status=live }}. Three years from 1956 and the ''Manchester Guardian'' soon became ''The Guardian'', introduced by Scott C.C.P</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wv7sCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA230 |title=Reassessing Suez 1956: New Perspectives on the Crisis and Its Aftermath |last=Smith |first=Simon C. |year=2016 |publisher=Routledge |page=230 |isbn=978-1-317-07069-6 |access-date=23 August 2020 |archive-date=21 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121073108/https://books.google.com/books?id=wv7sCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA230 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 24 August 1959, ''The Manchester Guardian'' changed its name to ''The Guardian''. This change reflected the growing prominence of national and international affairs in the newspaper.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-archive/2002/jun/11/1|title=Key moments in The Guardian's history: a timeline|date=16 November 2017|website=The Guardian|access-date=3 April 2018|archive-date=27 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427154248/https://www.theguardian.com/gnm-archive/2002/jun/11/1|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 1961, ''The Guardian'', which had previously only been published in [[Manchester]], began to be printed in London.<ref>''The Press and the People''. London: General Council of the Press. 1961, p. 14</ref> 
[[Nesta Roberts]] was appointed as the newspaper's first news editor there, becoming the first woman to hold such a position on a British national newspaper.<ref>Geoffrey Taylor, "Nesta Roberts: The first woman to run the news desk on a national newspaper", ''The Guardian'', 18 January 2009, accessed 14 August 2021</ref>