Hugh Gaitskell Quotes


How easy it is to say the wrong thing! How easy it is not to recognize one has said the wrong thing!


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Hugh Gaitskell, 1906-1963, British Member of Parliament (Labour), Chancellor of the Exchequer, Diary, November 14, 1947

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Hugh Gaitskell
Hugh Gaitskell
  • Born: April 9, 1906
  • Died: January 18, 1963
  • Nationality: British
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Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell CBE was Leader of the British Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963. 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.