In his seven years as leader of the Opposition, Hugh Gaitskell has fought hard to make the squabbling, divided socialists fit to govern. Last week, for the first time, he finally won the support ...

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If ever there was a serendipitous moment to rethink the legacy of Labour’s lost leader, it’s now. True, there were paradoxes in the life of Hugh Gaitskell, who died 50 years ago this month ...

Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s Labour Cabinet met twice on Monday, 9 April 1951. The Chancellor, Hugh Gaitskell, was proposing charges for teeth and spectacles on the NHS in his Budget the next ...

Hugh Gaitskell, CBE, was a British politician and Leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963. Before his position as leader of the Labour Party, ...

Hugh Gaitskell called for a British general election yesterday in the light of Sir Anthony Eden's resignation as Prime Minister. The leader of the British Labor Party said, "I am sorry that Sir ...

Hugh Gaitskell declared last night that recent events in the Soviet satellites, despite superficial signs to the contrary, do indicate that the countries of the Atlantic Alliance should jointly ...

Hugh Gaitskell gave this speech at the 1960 Labour party conference as leader of the opposition. In it, he attempted to prevent the party from calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament, and see off ...

Rishi Sunak hid his admiration for an unlikely political hero - a tax-raising Labour chancellor Prime Minister chose a portrait of Hugh Gaitskell for his office during his time in No 11 Downing Street ...

Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan deeply offended the widow of the deceased Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell just days after the politician’s untimely death 55 years ago. A letter in which Mrs ...