Hugh Gaitskell asked the United States to cooperate in forming a resolute U.N. policy on a Suez settlement in his final Godkin Lecture last night. He insisted that the United States should support ...

and the Parliamentary Party headed by Hugh Gaitskell. Gaitskell himself was largely responsible for this definition, which was that Britain should have no independent nuclear deterrent but should ...

Labor’s leader, Hugh Gaitskell, had waged a buoyant campaign that left him unchallenged as party leader. In defeat he felt strong enough to pledge himself to “a vow of silence, self-imposed ...

It was, she explains, “the same disease that Hugh Gaitskell, the former leader of the Labour Party, died of” – pleurisy and pericarditis. “He was at death’s door”, she says.

Lady Gaitskell, life peer and widow of Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell, talks about her lifelong involvement in politics, campaigning and her work in the House of Lords and at the United Nations.