A year after their landslide win, Labour finds itself reeling from internal revolt, public backlash over welfare reforms, and unprecedented ...

Rachel Reeves is at risk of becoming the shortest-serving Labour Chancellor after Kier Starmer declined to give her a public ...

But Reeves used it as an attempt at political resurrection, seeking to dispel the impression that she is a “dessicated calculating machine” (as Aneurin Bevan said of Hugh Gaitskell). Austerity was “a ...

A fan of right-wing Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, who had died before Hattersley’s arrival at Westminster, his memoir tells us that in the mid-sixties socialist journalist Paul Foot had thought of ...

Like his opponent - Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell - he was Oxford educated, although there the similarities ended. Youngish at 49, Gaitskell was trailed as the "man with the plan" by campaign posters, ...

Replying to a demand voiced yesterday by Labor Party leader Hugh Gaitskell that the Western Big Three and the USSR undertake to guarantee the borders of Israel.

Alice, a bosom political pal of Hugh Gaitskell, was firmly on the right of the party, a witchfinder-general of left-wing militants seeking to take over Labour.

Last week Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell resoundingly quelled the civil war in Labor’s ranks, scoring a personal triumph that was also reassuring to the U.S. and the West. No Neville.

When British Socialists in 1955 picked Hugh Gaitskell, now 53, to succeed the retiring Clement Attlee as head of the party, they applauded, but they did not cheer. The sad fact was that the ...