Rachel Reeves is at risk of becoming the shortest-serving Labour Chancellor after Kier Starmer declined to give her a public ...

This last point in particular had a long-lasting coda as controlling public spending across the board led to the imposition of spectacle and denture charges in chancellor Hugh Gaitskell’s 1951 ...

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 ...

The official opening of Park Hill was performed on June 16, 1961 by Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition, Hugh Gaitskell.

The great majority of politicians in the House of Commons seemed to belong as much to the old elites. True, the Labour Party was now a significant force in the Commons, but its leader, Hugh Gaitskell ...

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 ...

And the former Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, who died in the 60s – I’d like to find out what he would have done if he had survived and realised his ambitions.

But it was only a meeting of 253 Laborite M.P.s, debating whether Hugh Gaitskell should be re-elected leader of Britain’s Labor Party. Gaitskell was indeed battling for his political life.