# Hugh Gaitskell
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Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician and Leader of the Labour Party. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant, he was elected to Parliament in 1945 and held office in Clement Attlee's governments, notably as Minister of Fuel and Power after the bitter winter of 1946–47, and eventually joining the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Facing the need to increase military spending in 1951, he imposed National Health Service charges on dentures and spectacles, prompting the leading left-winger Aneurin Bevan to resign from the Cabinet.
1956 - The Suez Crisis #2.17: Britain Knows Best
1956 Episode 2.17 looks at Anthony Eden’s furious efforts to shape the debate on the British intervention in Egypt in the first few days of November, 1956.
Our story on 5th November where, just as British and French paratroopers were landing on Port Said, the British Government was fighting its ow…
Episode Five: The ”A Thousand Years of History” Speech
In this episode Will looks at Hugh Gaitskell's famous 1962 Labour Party Conference speech, the "A Thousand Years of History" speech and attempts to uncover what made Gaitskell write the speech and how it was influenced by his past and his political career.
The next episode will focus on Gordon Brow…
Episode Four: The ”Pound In Your Pocket” Speech
In this episode of the podcast Will examines Harold Wilson's 1967 "Pound in Your Pocket" speech, given as the pound was devalued by Harold Wilson's government. Wilson's speech was well remembered for the infamous pound in your pocket phrase but was there more to this iconic speech than meets the ey…
238. Decline to defeat
Circumstances seemed unfavourable for a Labour victory in a 1950 election but, when it was held, Attlee managed to lead his party to the second win in its history. It took a majority of the popular vote, and even a majority of parliamentary seats, though way down from its previous landslide to a me…
244. Harold gets Home
Here we’re focusing on the changes that took place in Britain after Supermac (Harold Macmillan) stood down as Prime Minister.
A lot of how that went depended on the Opposition formed by the Labour Party. Initially it was led by Hugh Gaitskell from the right of the party, with Aneurin Bevan giving h…
Labour Lives Cut Short (Episode 1 of 3): Hugh Gaitskell
Richard and Lee begin a new mini-series looking at the Labour politicians whose lives came to tragic and premature ends, starting with Hugh Gaitskell. After becoming Chancellor just five years into his time as an MP, Gaitskell became the flagbearer for the Labour Right and, in 1955, the successor t…
The Labour Party – Part Two – War and Peace
Welcome back to Origin Story season eight: The Story of Socialism. This week, we continue the tale of the UK Labour Party, from Keir Hardie to Keir Starmer.
It’s 1940 and Clement Attlee’s Labour has joined the wartime coalition with Winston Churchill’s Tories, making it seem for the first time lik…
The General Strike – The Revolution That Wasn’t
Hello and welcome to another bonus episode. It’s the centenary of the General Strike of May 1926, the most important industrial dispute in British history, but what really happened and did it really change Britain?
One strange thing about the General Strike is that it happened when industrial rela…
Harold Wilson: Labour's Rising Star, Part Two
In Part Two of The Westminster Ledger’s series on Harold Wilson, we follow his remarkable rise from newly elected MP in 1945 to Leader of the Labour Party in 1963.
Wilson entered Parliament as part of Clement Attlee’s landslide victory and, still only in his early thirties, quickly became one of th…
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