Hugh Gaitskell, British politician and leader of the Labour Party (died 1963)

Hugh Gaitskell

British politician (1906–1963)

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, he was elected to Parliament in 1945 and held office in Clement Attlee's…