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Leading article: Hugh Gaitskell: New Labour's old roots
2013
Overview
So a Wykehamist who cavorted with the wealthy Tory wife of James Bond's creator, Amy Fleming, was never going to be loved by his whole party. To his own faction, however, [Hugh Gaitskell] was a hero. Young men such as Roy Jenkins saw this liberally minded bon viveur as the man to bury Labour's association with ration books and hair-shirted sacrifice. But his lowly place in the posthumous pantheon owes more to those in his party who disagreed, and rallied instead to the great working-class rival who branded him \"a desiccated calculating machine\". Where Aneurin Bevan had created the NHS, Gaitskell introduced the first NHS charges to fund an American-led fight in distant Korea. Gaitskell may have had the upper hand more often during the party's 1950s civil war, but there was only going to be one winner in the Labour history stakes.
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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