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Há 4 dias · On 1 November, Lady Eden found herself sitting next to Dora Gaitskell, wife of the Labour leader, in the gallery of the House of Commons, whose sitting was suspended, due to uproar, for the first time since 1924. "Can you stand it?" she asked, to which, according to one version, the seasoned Gaitskell replied, "the boys must have ...
2 de mai. de 2024 · Let’s call it the Dora Gaitskell Rule. Dora was the wife of then-Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell. After a fiery speech at a Labour Party conference in 1962 opposing the UK entering the European Economic Community, she turned to him and said: ‘All the wrong people are cheering.’”
28 de abr. de 2024 · The FMs letter to other party leaders looking for common ground is not being seen as such and being widely ridiculed. Hardly surprising, considering only a few weeks ago Useless was promising his party conference that he would make Scotland Tory free. Now he's writing to Douglass Ross, begging him to be his friend! 6.
28 de abr. de 2024 · THERE’S a good rule in politics which has served me well. Let’s call it the Dora Gaitskell Rule ...
12 de mai. de 2024 · London, Bloomsbury, 2013, ISBN: 9780747588931; 432pp.; Price: £25.00. Modernity Britain marks the third part of Kynaston’s Tales of a New Jerusalem series. The first volume – Austerity Britain 1945–51 – covered the immediate post-war years of the Attlee government, while its successor, Family Britain 1951–57, took the story up to the ...
Há 1 dia · As pollsters note, he will become the most unpopular Leader of the Opposition to become prime minister. Here’s why this disintegrating cabal deserves the tagline of the “worst government in British democratic history”.
13 de mai. de 2024 · It remains to be seen whether it will catch on in the way that, in the postwar consensus period, the Conservative and Labour Chancellors’ names (RA Butler and Hugh Gaitskell) were fused to...
