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4 giorni fa · When Labour Leader Hugh Gaitskell died suddenly in January 1963, Wilson won the subsequent leadership election to replace him, becoming Leader of the Opposition. Wilson led Labour to a narrow victory at the 1964 election.
17 mag 2024 · So too is the era when a politician such as Hugh Gaitskell could have a prolonged affair with Anne Fleming, the wife of the James Bond author, for almost the entirety of his stint as leader of...
13 mag 2024 · It remains to be seen whether it will catch on in the way that, in the postwar consensus period, the Conservative and Labour Chancellors’ names (RA Butler and Hugh Gaitskell) were fused to create...
29 mag 2024 · Labour, under their new leader Hugh Gaitskell, saw their vote drop to 43.8% compared to the Conservatives (and Unionists) 49.4%. In Northern Ireland, the 1959 general election came during a period of renewed republican violence.
6 giorni fa · The ideological divisions at the heart of the Labour Party, including the formation of Aneurin Bevan’s left-wing splinter group typified in the infamous ‘Morecambe Conference’, leadership challenges against Attlee, and the rise of Hugh Gaitskell’s revisionism provide a basis for understanding the developments analysed by the ...
20 mag 2024 · He became Labour’s spokesman on finance and foreign affairs, and in 1960 he mounted a left-wing challenge to Hugh Gaitskell for the party leadership. This failed, but after Gaitskell died in 1963, Wilson was elected leader of the Labour Party.
30 mag 2024 · Thorpe focuses on an ageing leadership, Labour’s failure to reform itself culminating in Hugh Gaitskell’s failed attempt at scrapping Clause IV, and the Party’s struggle to develop new policy, as the chief reasons for Labour’s stagnation in this period.
