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Hace 1 día · Harold Wilson. James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, PC, FRS, FSS (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970 and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He was the Leader of the Labour Party from 1963 ...
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Hace 4 días · 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 ...
Hace 7 horas · A critical review of its history as the official party of opposition, beginning in 1922, is best summarised as ‘could/should do much better’. The party’s ‘out of office’ highlights, arguably, are Hugh Gaitskell’s opposition to the Suez fiasco of 1956, and its passionate support for the victims of Thatcherism in the first half of the ...
Hace 1 día · His interest in politics was ignited when he saw the then leader of the Labour Party, Hugh Gaitskell, speaking at the University, and was impressed. “It was the first time I experienced a leader who led from the very front, rather than waiting for something to happen later on,” he recalled.
Hace 4 días · Apparently forgotten Labour figures include Denis Healey, the leaders Hugh Gaitskell, Michael Foot, John Smith, and Neil Kinnock (the relevant part of the index jumps from ‘kidney dialysis’ to ‘Kissinger, Henry’), and Roy Jenkins (‘Japanese-style industrial policy’ to ‘Jewish refugees’).
Hace 3 días · Leeds produced a string of noteworthy post-war politicians including Hugh Gaitskell, Alice Bacon, and the lesser-known Charles Pannell. A Labour stalwart he played a crucial role assisting Tony Benn on his crusade to overturn hereditary peerages. Pannell’s papers are an abstract mix combining Speaker Conference memoranda with pamphlets on ...
Hace 2 días · Yet Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell found Castle so insufferable, he told a journalist, ‘I could strangle her with my own hands.’ Think of the irrepressible and personable Mo Mowlam, who, according to her biographer Julia Langden, was humiliated by Tony Blair and hated by Gordon Brown while she was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
