Family friends and frequent visitors to the Pakenham household included J. M. Keynes
, William Beveridge
(whom AF
's father had assisted in plans for the postwar Welfare State), Hugh Gaitskell
, and (particularly good...
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26 October 1951: At the general election the postwar reforming...
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26 October 1951
At the general election the postwar reforming Labour government of Clement Attlee
polled the highest number of votes it had ever received, but fewer seats than before: it was ousted by the Conservatives under Winston Churchill
November 1959: At the Labour Party conference in the wake...
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November 1959
At the Labour Party
conference in the wake of Conservative
electoral victory, leader Hugh Gaitskell
proposed repealing Clause 4 of the party's constitution, the clause that set the goal of common ownership of the means...
