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1 giorno 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.
- Edward Heath
- Labour
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- James Callaghan
4 giorni fa · He helped to abolish capital punishment, reformed the criminal justice system and oversaw major legal reforms on homosexuality, abortion, race relations and sexual equality. His patrons included Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell, while his protégés ranged from Tony Blair to Paddy Ashdown. Jenkins was always more than a politician.
4 giorni fa · Avon was a long-standing friend of Ann Fleming, wife of novelist Ian Fleming and lover of Hugh Gaitskell, Leader of the Labour Party from 1955 to 1963, who had previously been married to Viscount Rothermere. In 1952, she and composer and playwright Noël Coward became godparents to the Flemings' son Caspar, who died of a drug overdose in 1975.
- 15 November 2021 (aged 101), London, England
- Former spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom (1955–1957)
- Anne Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, 28 June 1920, Kensington, London, England
1 giorno fa · Clement Attlee. Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, KG, OM, CH, PC, FRS (3 January 1883 – 8 October 1967) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955. Attlee served as Deputy Prime Minister during the wartime ...
3 giorni fa · Alberta Oil Needs British Capital. The Middle East has become an uncertain source of British oil supplies. That this has become evident even to the British government itself can be seen in the statement recently made by Hugh Gaitskell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that he might authorize British capital investment in Alberta oil development.
4 giorni fa · “Bevanites” (followers of former health minister Aneurin Bevan) wanted a more socialist economic policy and less dependence on the United States; the “revisionists,” led by Hugh Gaitskell, Attlee’s successor as party leader, wished to drop the commitment to the nationalization of industry.
3 giorni fa · ‘What rocked the Labour party in the five years between Attlee’s retirement and Bevan’s death was not a personal feud between Bevan and Hugh Gaitskell – though, to be sure, there was no chemistry between them either – so much as a profound conflict of ideas and concept of history.
