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2 days ago · Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell CBE (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963.
Jun 8, 2024 · He was a liberal, social-minded Tory whose policies often converged with those of Labour’s Hugh Gaitskell, hence the label “Butskellism”.
Jun 13, 2024 · Following a meeting between the Labour Party and the TUC, political correspondent Hardiman Scott interviews Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell on the Cuban missile crisis as the USA enforces a...
1 day ago · Indeed Wilson’s predecessor as leader Hugh Gaitskell, who lived in Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, was a Wykehamist, an old boy of one of the other poshest English public schools Winchester College. However Wilson, with his Yorkshire accent and blunt delivery, was almost the polar opposite of Douglas-Home who looked and spoke like the sort of ...
1 day ago · Indeed Wilson’s predecessor as leader Hugh Gaitskell, who lived in Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, was a Wykehamist, an old boy of one of the other poshest English public schools Winchester College. However Wilson, with his Yorkshire accent and blunt delivery, was almost the polar opposite of Douglas-Home who looked and spoke like the sort of ...
2 days ago · Labour, under their new leader Hugh Gaitskell, saw their vote drop to 43.8% compared to the Conservatives (and Unionists) 49.4%. In Northern Ireland, the 1959 general election came during a period of renewed republican violence.
3 days ago · Famously, the great British Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell was the son of a prosperous manufacturer, but was turned to Socialism by the poverty he saw around him in his youth. It was not uncommon for political careers to begin like this, or to be shaped by the pressures of outside events.
