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Hugh Gaitskell was a British politician who led the Labour Party from 1955 to 1963. He was a revisionist who advocated a mixed economy and opposed nationalisation, unilateral disarmament and the European Common Market.
Hugh Gaitskell was a British statesman and the leader of the Labour Party from 1955 to 1963. He served as chancellor of the exchequer, opposed unilateral nuclear disarmament and the European Economic Community, and died in office.
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Dec 5, 2013 · Virginia Allkins, a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital in 1963, says the Labour leader died of kidney failure, not pleurisy as reported. She also recalls how Harold Wilson and George Brown reacted to the news.
Jan 4, 2013 · A reappraisal of Hugh Gaitskell, the first moderniser of the Labour Party who died 50 years ago. He was a liberal, a Keynesian, a collectivist and a passionate advocate of social equality, but also a divisive figure for the left and the right.
The leader of the Labour party, Hugh Gaitskell, passed away on 18 January 1963 after a heart condition. He was known for his efforts to modernise the party and his controversial views on nuclear disarmament.
Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963) was a British politician and Labour party leader who modernized the party's ideology and re‐established its credibility. Learn about his life, career, achievements, and controversies from various Oxford Reference sources.
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Nov 22, 1979 · If only Hugh Gaitskell had not died when he did. If only he had led the Labour Party into the General Election of 1964. He had at last succeeded in imposing his ascendency over the party – an ascendency repeatedly challenged in the eight years he had led it, all the time in opposition.
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