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4 unusual facts about Hugh Gaitskell


France-Albert René

While abroad, he became heavily involved in the politics of the Labour Party, at the time led by Clement Attlee and later Hugh Gaitskell.

Frognal

The Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell lived at 10 Frognal and ran a salon of influence in the 1940s, and as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1950.

Gaitskell

Hugh Gaitskell (1906–1963), British politician; leader of the Labour party.

Life Peerages Act 1958

The Labour Party opposed the Life Peerages Bill on Second Reading: Hugh Gaitskell made an impassioned speech against the proposals, arguing for a far more fundamental reform such as total dismantlement of the House or a wholly elected house.



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