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4 de may. de 2024 · His first political memory, growing up in Cornwall, was the death of Hugh Gaitskell in 1963. He also remembers staying up late to watch the ’64 vote (unknowingly, getting in some practice for ...
26 de abr. de 2024 · Originally a supporter of the centre-right Labour leader, Hugh Gaitskell, and a contributor to the CIA-backed monthly magazine Encounter, Marquand became a Labour MP between 1966 and 1977. He left the House of Commons to follow Roy Jenkins to Brussels, then helped Jenkins and the other members of the ‘Gang of Four’ – David Owen ...
3 de may. de 2024 · Most Labour politicians are not ‘desiccated calculating machines’ to use Nye Bevan’s putdown of Hugh Gaitskell. They do not just weigh electoral consequences. They believe the Rwanda policy ...
Hace 2 días · The revisionist project of Hugh Gaitskell and Anthony Crosland was imploding: Traditional, post-war social democracy can be revised in the way I think necessary only if the revisionists are prepared to offend virtually every centre of power in the Labour Movement.
28 de abr. de 2024 · 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.
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 ...
27 de abr. de 2024 · 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.”
