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 ...

Lady Gaitskell, life peer and widow of Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, talks about her lifelong involvement in politics, campaigning and her work in the House of Lords and at the United Nations.

"Hear! Hear!" cried the Honorable Members last week, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell rose in the House of Commons to open the budget for 1951-52. At £4.2 billion ($11.8 ...

Hugh Gaitskell called upon the Great Powers last night to lend active support to the United Nations, which he believes despite its shortcomings can assume a vital role in preserving world peace.

BRITAIN joined the European Economic Community (EEC) – the precursor to the EU – in the late Seventies. In a newly-resurfaced speech, former Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell explained the reasons ...

On 18th January, 1963. Tony Benn, Labour MP, writes in his diary: “Hugh Gaitskell died today after a terrific fight for his life over the last week or so... He was a divisive leader of the Party. He ...

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 ...

Hugh Gaitskell, leader of Britain's Labor Party, died Friday of complications arising from pleurisy. Many observers believed that Gaitskell, 56, would be the next prime minister.

Voices Labour’s history of division should remind members of what unites them. The clash between Nye Bevan and Hugh Gaitskell in the 1950s was as bitter as anything in the 1980s or today: a ...

In 'The Observer' in 1957, Hugh Gaitskell was quoted as saying 'Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bomb.' On 23 August 1977, ...