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Hace 4 días · The young activist. Aneurin Bevan was born on 15 November 1897 in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, sixth of the ten children (only six of whom survived to adulthood) born to miner David Bevan and his wife Phoebe, daughter of a colliery blacksmith. At the nearby elementary school young Nye – as he had been called from an early age – had to fight ...
Hace 4 días · The thirteen wilderness years following the 1951 defeat are covered in chapter seven. 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.
Hace 1 día · Hugh Gaitskell Hugh Gaitskell By Philip Williams LR General Ian Gregor Collaborating LR Reviews Charles Palliser Cannibals and Missionaries Cannibals and Missionaries By Mary McCarthy LR Jonathan Keates Fitzgerald’s Leftovers The Price Was High: the Last Uncollected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald
1 de may. de 2024 · Hugh Gaitskell, the Labour leader (1955-63), predicted that 'We must wait. If there was collusion, the motives of the men who practised it were so various that, sooner or later, they are bound to start giving one another away'.10 Significantly, a prominent role in ensuring that - to quote Emrys Hughes, the Labour backbencher - 'a good many of the
15 de may. de 2024 · 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. Sir Bernard Spilsbury (1877-1947 ...
13 de may. de 2024 · 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.
2 de may. de 2024 · “There’s a good rule in politics which has served me well. Let’s call it the Dora Gaitskell Rule. Dora was the wife of then-Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell. After a fiery speech at a Labour Party conference in 1962 opposing the UK entering the European Economic Community, she turned to him and said: ‘All the wrong people are cheering.’”
