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3 giorni fa · Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell CBE (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963.
4 giorni fa · Indeed Wilson’s predecessor as leader Hugh Gaitskell, who lived in Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, was a Wykehamist, an old boy of one of the other poshest English public schools Winchester College. However Wilson, with his Yorkshire accent and blunt delivery, was almost the polar opposite of Douglas-Home who looked and spoke like the sort of chap you’d meet on a grouse moor.
4 giorni fa · Indeed Wilson’s predecessor as leader Hugh Gaitskell, who lived in Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, was a Wykehamist, an old boy of one of the other poshest English public schools Winchester College. However Wilson, with his Yorkshire accent and blunt delivery, was almost the polar opposite of Douglas-Home who looked and spoke like the sort of chap you’d meet on a grouse moor.
13 giu 2024 · Following a meeting between the Labour Party and the TUC, political correspondent Hardiman Scott interviews Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell on the Cuban missile crisis as the USA enforces a...
2 giorni fa · Gaitskell led the party in opposition from 1955 until 1963, maintaining a firmly Atlanticist line. ‘Gaitskellism’ was a natural counterpart to the Cold War Liberalism of Truman or Kennedy. Gaitskell’s death and the succession of Harold Wilson to the Labour leadership were an unexpected challenge to this strand of the party.
27 giu 2024 · The Conservative Party largely bought into the legacy of Attlee’s Labour government, an apparent assimilation of the two parties summed up by the term ‘Butskellism’. This described the common ground between R.A. Butler, the centrist Conservative who became chancellor in 1951, and Hugh Gaitskell, who became Labour leader in 1955.
2 giorni fa · Politicians included Hugh Gaitskell (1906- 63), who lived at no. 10 Frognal in the 1940s and as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1950, and Henry Brooke, Hampstead's M.P. and Home Secretary (later Baron Brooke of Cumnor) who lived at no. 45 Redington Road 1962-4.
