Hugh Gaitskell
The Lost Prime Minister
HUGH GAITSKELL was the only Leader of the Opposition in more than 40 years never to become Prime Minister. On the eve of the Labour Party Conference Anthony Howard looks at the imperial origins, intellectual force and appeal of a man who could have changed the course of British history if he had ever reached Number 10.
What then was the Gaitskell legacy? Evaluating it - and recalling the life and stormy career of the man who often seemed to be fighting his own party just as fiercely as his political opponents - are his widow Baroness Gaitskell his sister Lady Ashton, Lord Boyle The Rt Hon Michael Foot, MP The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins and Lord Shinwell.
Film editor PHIL STILLMAN Producer PHILIP SPEIGHT DirectorSANDRA GREGORY
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