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...
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seen as merely one of numerous useful devices. The movement was led by Hugh Gaitskell and included Anthony Crosland, Roy Jenkins, Douglas Jay, Patrick Gordon...
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to the role of Shadow Foreign Secretary in 1961. When Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell died suddenly in January 1963, Wilson won the subsequent leadership...
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Clause IV (section Hugh Gaitskell's fight)
common ownership of industry, and proved controversial in later years; Hugh Gaitskell attempted to remove the clause following Labour's loss in the 1959 general...
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Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell (née Creditor; formerly Frost; 25 April 1901 – 1 July 1989) was a British Labour Party politician and the wife of Hugh Gaitskell...
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of Aneurin Bevan (known as Bevanites) and the right-wing following Hugh Gaitskell (known as Gaitskellites). The economy recovered as Conservatives hung...
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Dora Gaitskell, Baroness Gaitskell (1901–1989), British politician Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963), British politician; leader of the Labour party Mary Gaitskill...
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1960 Labour Party leadership election (category Hugh Gaitskell)
incumbent leader Hugh Gaitskell was challenged for re-election. Normally the annual re-election of the leader had been a formality. Gaitskell had lost the...
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damaging split over an austerity Budget brought in by the Chancellor, Hugh Gaitskell, to pay for the cost of Britain's participation in the Korean War. Aneurin...
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"Butskellism" from a fusion of his name with that of his Labour counterpart, Hugh Gaitskell. Born into a family of academics and Indian administrators, Butler had...
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