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Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (* 9. April 1906 in London; † 18. Januar 1963 ebenda) war ein britischer Politiker. Er war Führer der Labour Party von 1955 bis zu seinem Tod 1963. Er studierte am Winchester College und am New College der Universität Oxford, wo er 1927 sein Examen in dem kombinierten Studium von Philosophie, Politik und ...
Hugh Gaitskell, the youngest of the three children of Arthur Gaitskell (1870–1915), and his wife, Adelaide Gaitskell, was born on 9th April 1906. His father worked for the Indian Civil Service, and his mother was the daughter of George Jamieson, who had been consul-general in Shanghai. Gaitskell was educated at Dragon School (1912–19 ...
The fifteen or sixteen years between 1930 and 1945 saw important changes in Hugh Gaitskell's personal circumstances: his coming to London, his academic post at University College, his involvement with party work, his earliest election campaign, his year of study and socialist rising in Vienna, his entry into Government service with the outbreak of war, his friendship and collaboration with ...
Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell. Politician. Gaitskell became a socialist during the General Strike, and was elected as a Labour MP for Leeds South in 1945. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1950-1) and took over the leadership of the Party on Attlee's retirement in December 1955. Gaitskell was a powerful Opposition Leader, who shaped party ...
Gaitskell determined to modernize the party to accommodate the aspirations of middle‐class voters. To traditionalists, however, this meant diluting the socialist content of the party's ideology. Such opposition led to Gaitskell's defeat in 1960 over his attempt to remove clause 4 (the common ownership of the means of production) from the party's constitution.
34 Hugh Gaitskell within Labour politics, with the SDP ‘claiming his mantle’ (Brivati, 1996: 445). Nor did New Labour seek to suggest that Gaitskell was an influ-ence upon them. When examining the relationship between revisionism and New Labour, Matt Beech emphasised how revisionism represented the
14 de ene. de 2013 · In late 1959, Hugh Gaitskell declared that the Labour Party needed to revise Clause IV of its 1918 Constitution. Within the party, his proposals faced much opposition. Ultimately, the strength of this opposition meant that Gaitskell was forced to retreat on the issue. Historians have noted Labour's emotional attachment to Clause IV.
