Gaitskell, Hugh

Gaitskell, Hugh

▪ British statesman
born , April 9, 1906, London
died Jan. 18, 1963, London
 British statesman, leader of the British Labour Party from December 1955 until his sudden death at the height of his influence.

      After teaching political economy at the University of London, Gaitskell served through World War II in the Ministry of Economic Warfare. Entering the House of Commons in 1945, he was appointed minister of fuel and power in 1947, minister of state for economic affairs in 1950, and chancellor of the exchequer (succeeding Sir Stafford Cripps) later the same year, leaving office when the Labour government was defeated in 1951.

      Gaitskell was chosen to succeed Clement Attlee as Labour leader in 1955, in preference to two more experienced candidates, Herbert Morrison and Aneurin Bevan. He seemed discredited in 1959 when his party lost the general election, and in 1960 when the party executive, which opposed unilateral nuclear disarmament, was defeated on that issue at the annual party conference. At the 1961 party conference, however, he secured a reversal of the decision on nuclear weapons and then was able to reunite the party. In 1962, again at the party conference, he made a notable speech opposing Great Britain's entry into the European Economic Community (Common Market), for which the Conservative government was unsuccessfully negotiating.

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