Gaitskell
Proper noun
Meaning
Gaitskell (plural Gaitskells)
A surname, a variant of Gaskell.
Examples
Like Healey and Crosland, he had been a close friend of Hugh Gaitskell and for them Gaitskell's death and the elevation of Harold Wilson as Labour Party leader was a setback.
Ironically, in the build up to the crisis, it was the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell and the left-leaning tabloid newspaper The Mirror that first made the comparison between Nasser and Mussolini.
Opposition leader Hugh Gaitskell was also at the dinner.
The passage of the Commonwealth Immigrants Act of 1962 narrowed the door for would-be immigrants, causing Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell to call the act “cruel and brutal anti-colour legislation.”