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
Aneurin Bevan
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Aneurin "Nye" Bevan was a Welsh Labour Party politician, noted for spearheading the creation of the British National Health Service during his tenure as Minister of Health in Clement Attlee's governme
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…military spending in 1951 due to the Korean War, he imposed National Health Service charges on dentures and spectacles, prompting the leading left-winger Aneurin Bevan to resign from the Cabinet. The perceived similarity in his outlook to that of his Conservative Party counterpart Rab Butler was dubbed "Butskellism…
Bevan in 1943
The Tredegar Query Club by friends including Aneurin Bevan and Walter Conway. Conway is in the middle of the picture. Aneurin is second from right on the back row and his brother Billy is second right on front row.
Bevan talking to a patient at Park Hospital, Manchester, the day the NHS came into being
Statue of Bevan in Cardiff by Robert Thomas