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13 de may. de 2024 · It remains to be seen whether it will catch on in the way that, in the postwar consensus period, the Conservative and Labour Chancellors’ names (RA Butler and Hugh Gaitskell) were fused to ...
28 de may. de 2024 · He helped to abolish capital punishment, reformed the criminal justice system and oversaw major legal reforms on homosexuality, abortion, race relations and sexual equality. His patrons included Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell, while his protégés ranged from Tony Blair to Paddy Ashdown. Jenkins was always more than a politician.
Hace 1 día · Military Cross. Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1955 until his resignation in 1957. Achieving rapid promotion as a young Conservative member of Parliament, he became foreign ...
9 de may. de 2024 · 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.
14 de may. de 2024 · The 1958 Act was very clearly presented as a means of improving the conduct of government. It was also intended that it should increase the number of Labour peers in the Lords; an increase which over time was indeed its effect, even if initially Hugh Gaitskell struggled to find Labour MPs willing to move.
The term ‘Heevesian’ is a compound of the names of the Chancellor (Jeremy Hunt) and the Shadow Chancellor (Rachel Reeves). It remains to be seen whether it will catch on in the way that, in the postwar consensus period, the Conservative and Labour Chancellors’ names (RA Butler and Hugh Gaitskell) were fused to create ‘Butskellism’.
Hace 6 días · 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.
