(1995), and guilty too in 1997 of admission to the House of Lords. He is still with us, though retired from the Lords. His interests, as his memoir makes clear, centred on housing, schools, hospitals ...

As former Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell once said: “All terrorists, at the invitation of the government, end up with drinks in the Dorchester.” Updated to 2025, it just may be Trump Tower, and ...

High Gaitskell greets a young resident in 1961 During the remainder of the century and into the next one, there were many varied stories in the news about Park Hill. Advertisement ...

Thirty months after Marshall aid began, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell last week had an announcement for the House of Commons: Britain could go it alone; Marshall Plan aid would be ...

My mother crying one evening in the house. I couldn’t understand why, but I realised later it was because President ... I want to take him to task for the writing of the Irish constitution. Also, ...

From the corridor outside the committee room in the House of Commons, ... debating whether Hugh Gaitskell should be re-elected leader of Britain’s Labor Party.

He was appointed President of the Board of Trade, but resigned in 1951with Aneurin Bevan in opposition to Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell's shadow budget plans for military spending at the expense of ...

Construction began in 1958 and was completed two years later, before being officially opened on March 2, 1962 by then Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell.

Hugh Gaitskell, Labour leader, Brighton, ... House of Commons, 1980. “In my youth, quite a time ago, when I lived in Plymouth, every Saturday night I used to go to the Palace theatre.