Hugh Gaitskell
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Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1955 until his death in 1963. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant,
Gaitskell in 1961
The Gaitskell flats in Holbeck, Leeds were named after Gaitskell. They were demolished in 2010.
Hugh Gaitskell 1958
John Smith was a British politician who was Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from July 1992 until his death in May 1994. He was also Member of Parliament for Monklands East.
Hugh Gaitskell
…April 1963 (around £1.7m at 2020 prices). The shock of Gaitskell's death was comparable to that of the sudden death of the later Labour Party leader John Smith in May 1994, when he too seemed to be on the threshold of Number 10. Beginning with his time as a minister under Attlee, Gaitskell kept a diary until…
Smith in 1989
Smith's birthplace in Dalmally, Glenorchy
Gravestone of Smith on the island of Iona, Scotland. The epitaph is from An Essay on Man by Alexander Pope.