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Hugh Gaitskell, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1906)

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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…
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Chancellor of the Exchequer

Lead minister of His Majesty's Treasury

The chancellor of the exchequer, often abbreviated to chancellor, is a senior minister of the Crown within the Government of the United Kingdom, and the head of His Majesty's Treasury. As one of the four Great Offices of State, the chancellor is a high-ranking member of the…
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