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Hace 2 días · 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.
Hace 4 días · 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.
Hace 4 días · 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.
Hace 1 día · 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.
Hace 1 día · The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to Chancellor, [3] is a senior minister of the Crown within Government of the United Kingdom, and head of Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the British Cabinet .
Hace 5 días · Es famoso que el gran líder del Partido Laborista británico, Hugh Gaitskell, era hijo de un próspero fabricante, pero la pobreza que vio a su alrededor en su juventud lo convirtió al socialismo. No era raro que las carreras políticas comenzaran así, o que estuvieran moldeadas por las presiones de acontecimientos externos.
Hace 2 días · 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.
