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3 giorni fa · Despite his earlier association with Bevan, in 1955 he backed Hugh Gaitskell, the right-wing candidate in internal Labour Party terms, against Bevan for the party leadership election. Gaitskell appointed him Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1955, and he proved to be very effective.
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...
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.
5 giorni fa · 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. Operation Harvest was launched by the IRA on 11 December 1956.
4 giorni fa · 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.
9 mag 2024 · The revisionist project of Hugh Gaitskell and Anthony Crosland was imploding: Traditional, post-war social democracy can be revised in the way I think necessary only if the revisionists are prepared to offend virtually every centre of power in the Labour Movement.
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...
