"Treasurer of the Labour Party The Treasurer of the Labour Party is a position on the National Executive Committee of the British Labour Party. Although a post with little power, in the past, it was often hotly contested by people who later became big names in British politics: Arthur Greenwood beat Herbert Morrison in 1943, Hugh Gaitskell beat Aneurin Bevan in 1954, who in turn beat George Brown in 1956, while James Callaghan beat Michael Foot in 1967. Since the 1990s, the post has typically been held by a senior member of one of the larger Trade Unions. Since the"
"of Bevan's own miners' union, supported Gaitskell. Gaitskell won by 4.3 million votes to 2 million. Bevan gave a speech to the ""“Tribune”"" party at the conference, declaring that the Labour Leader needed to be a “desiccated calculating machine”. He was widely and probably wrongly thought to be referring to Gaitskell, to whom the label stuck. In fact it may well have been aimed at Attlee who had the previous day warned against “emotionalism” whilst privately Bevan thought that Gaitskell was highly emotional and, as he had shown in 1951, “couldn’t count”. In March 1955 Bevan, who had given no"
"Aneurin Bevan Aneurin Bevan (; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960), often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the UK from 1945 to 1951. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice, the rights of working people and democratic socialism. He was a long-time Member of Parliament (MP), representing Ebbw Vale in South Wales for 31 years. He was one of the chief spokesmen for the Labour Party's left wing, and of left-wing British thought generally. His most famous accomplishment came when,"
"the Labour Party deputy leadership election. He later gained the minimum 35 nominations required to stand in the ballot with the other candidates. Bradshaw came last in the election. Bradshaw is a critic of Jeremy Corbyn, whom he accused in a September 2016 article of being a ""destructive combination of incompetence, deceit and menace"". This comment was after Bradshaw was included on an internal Labour list of MPs, issued by mistake, who were implicated in ""abusing"" Corbyn and his supporters. In November 2016, Bradshaw opposed a motion in Parliament for the UK to withdraw support for the Saudi Arabian-led intervention"
"the Labour Movement in Britain as a whole. It was the birthplace of Aneurin Bevan, who was responsible for the introduction of the British National Health Service (NHS), and who in the 1920s was involved in the management of Tredegar General Hospital. Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992, was born in Tredegar in 1942 and lived there for most of his early life, attending the town's Georgetown Infants and Junior Schools between 1947 and 1953. His predecessor as leader, Michael Foot, was MP for the local constituency — Ebbw Vale — during his time as"
"Neil Kinnock. He lent his support to Kinnock. As an advisor to Kinnock, Reid was one of the earliest to embark on the crusade to reform and modernise the Labour Party. In 1983, after the Labour Party's worst electoral defeat in sixty-five years, he had, at Kinnock's request, put on a single sheet of paper what had been making Labour so unelectable for the past few years. ""Leaderless, unpatriotic, dominated by demagogues, policies fifteen years out of date"", Reid had written. He was contemptuous of the party campaign machine which Harold Wilson had, in 1955, called a ""penny-farthing"". ""The only"
"Lady Birdwood. Esmond Bevan intended to stand as an independent Labour candidate, but erroneously entered his occupation in the section on the nomination papers headed 'description', thus appearing on ballot papers as ""Systems Designer"". The Labour campaign started disastrously when it was discovered that the first leaflets had been printed at Cambridge Heath Press, owned by the Militant tendency (then practising entryism in the Labour Party; a group whose five key members were expelled two days before polling day). The leaflets were all pulped and reprinted, but the cost of the first printing still counted against the limit for election"
"her parliamentary colleague Edith Summerskill, a physician who wrote the anti-boxing tract ""The Ignoble Art"", and campaigned for the sport's abolition. After leaving Socialist Fellowship, Bessie moved steadily towards the centre and right of her party, distancing herself from colleagues with whom she had earlier found common cause. She did not support Aneurin Bevan when he resigned from the government in April 1951 over the introduction of National Health Service charges, and later asserted that, by making dissidence fashionable, Bevan had ""weakened the [Labour] National Executive to the point where it could no longer deal effectively with infiltrating Trotskyists and"
"summer of 1954. One of his main reasons for staying on as leader was to frustrate the leadership ambitions of Herbert Morrison, whom Attlee disliked for both political and personal reasons. At one time, Attlee had favoured Aneurin Bevan to succeed him as leader, but this became problematic after Bevan almost irrevocably split the party. In an interview with the ""News Chronicle"" columnist Percy Cudlipp in mid-September 1955, Attlee made clear his own thinking together with his preference for the leadership succession, stating: Attlee, now aged 72, contested the 1955 general election against Anthony Eden, which saw Labour lose 18"
"that Labour should demand the nationalisation of the armaments industry, support Republican Spain and sign an Anglo-Soviet pact in return for its support. When Labour supported the government's scheme with no such conditions, Bevan denounced Labour for imploring the people on recruiting platforms to put themselves under the leadership of their opponents. When conscription was introduced six months later, Bevan joined the rest of the Labour Party in opposing it, calling it ""the complete abandonment of any hope of a successful struggle against the weight of wealth in Great Britain"". The government had no arguments to persuade young men to"
"justified hatred and distrust of the Labour Party for the capitalist press and their day to day poisonous propaganda against the labour movement."" Andy Bevan faced a demonstration from his Labour colleagues outside Transport House when he finally began his job in January 1977. Militant general secretary Taaffe was interviewed by Michael Davie, a journalist for ""The Observer"", for an article published on 19 December 1976. The ""Militant"" newspaper argued that the Labour Party lost the 1979 election due to anger at the £8 billion cuts carried out by the Labour government, following the crisis caused by international speculation on"
"Bevanism Bevanism was the ideological argument for the Bevanites, a movement on the left wing of the Labour Party in the late 1950s and typified by Aneurin Bevan. Also called 'the Old Left', it was named after its dominant personality; however its intellectual direction was given by Richard Crossman and his followers including Michael Foot and Barbara Castle. Bevanism was opposed by the Gaitskellites, who are variously described as centre-left, social democrats, or ""moderates"" within the party. Bevanism was influenced by Marxism, with biographer and later Leader of the Labour Party Michael Foot saying that Bevan's ""belief in the class"
"to 1960. Throughout his political career he railed against the increasing corporate domination of the press. Foot fought the Plymouth Devonport constituency in the 1945 general election. His election agent was Labour activist and lifelong friend Ron Lemin. He won the seat for Labour for the first time, holding it until his surprise defeat by Dame Joan Vickers at the 1955 general election. Until 1957, he was the most prominent ally of Aneurin Bevan, who had taken Cripps's place as leader of the Labour left, though Foot and Bevan fell out after Bevan renounced unilateral nuclear disarmament at the 1957"
"at Buckingham Palace functions. Bevan said at a party rally in 1948: ""That is why no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to semi-starvation."" The comment inspired the creation of the Vermin Club by angry Conservatives; they attacked Bevan for years for the metaphor. Labour Party deputy leader Herbert Morrison complained that Bevan's attack had backfired, for his"
"and to remain in NATO, a policy stance which outraged the left. At the party conference in Scarborough in October 1960, motions calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament were carried despite Gaitskell's speech declaring that he and his allies would ""fight and fight and fight again to save the Party we love"". Elections for the Leader and Deputy Leader were formally held by the Parliamentary Labour Party at the beginning of each Parliamentary session, which happened later in October. There was already a vacancy for the Deputy Leader of the Party due to the death of Aneurin Bevan in July, and"
"Labour seldom boasted about its nationalisations. Instead Conservatives decried the inefficiency and mismanagement, and promised to reverse the treatment of steel and trucking. Labour struggled to maintain its support. Realising the unpopularity of rationing, in 1948–49 the government ended the rationing of potatoes, bread, shoes, clothing and jam, and increased the petrol ration for summer drivers. However, meat was still rationed, and in very short supply, at high prices. Militant socialist Aneurin Bevan, the Minister of Health, said at a party rally in 1948, ""no amount of cajolery... can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory"
"supported the Labour Party. A friend of Aneurin Bevan, whom he had first met in 1948 outside St Pancras Town Hall, Goodman gave support to ""Tribune"", the newspaper Bevan had founded just before the war, and helped new staff writer Ian Aitken. For the ""News Chronicle"", following the 1954 docks strike, he visited all the workplaces over a three-week period. He discovered ""astonishing inefficiencies, poor management bordering on the absurd, corrupt trade union practices and a bewildered workforce"". Arthur Deakin, the leader of the TGWU, read the articles by the journalist before publication at Goodman's own insistence, and thought the"
"Hugh Gaitskell Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a British politician and Leader of the Labour Party. An economics lecturer and wartime civil servant, he was elected to Parliament in 1945 and held office in Clement Attlee's governments, notably as Minister of Fuel and Power after the bitter winter of 1946–47, and eventually joining the Cabinet as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Facing the need to increase military spending in 1951, he imposed National Health Service charges on dentures and spectacles, prompting the leading left-winger Aneurin Bevan to resign from the Cabinet. The perceived similarity"
"to his attempt to lead the Labour Party. When Blair did become Labour leader, the puppet changed and he was portrayed with his grin replaced with an even bigger smile if he said something of importance. The deputy leader, John Prescott, was portrayed as a fat bumbling assistant, along with a squeaky voiced Robin Cook, and an enormous glasses-wearing Jack Straw. The SDP-Liberal Alliance was portrayed by the election-losing, populist, arrogant and undecided David Owen, with whining, bedwetting David Steel in his pocket. They were soon replaced by Paddy Ashdown, whose ""equidistance"" from the larger parties was satirised by his"
"Signatories to the petition are asked to opt in to receive updates from the campaign, so that they can support the choice of Nye Bevan when the call for nominations opens."" Petition on 38 Degrees Aneurin Bevan Aneurin Bevan (; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960), often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician who was the Minister for Health in the UK from 1945 to 1951. The son of a coal miner, Bevan was a lifelong champion of social justice, the rights of working people and democratic socialism. He was a long-time Member of Parliament"
"and Jacques Delors. He was a supporter of the 35-hour workweek passed by the Socialist government under Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in 2000. Maire died on 1 October 2017. One of his sons, Jacques Maire, is a member of the National Assembly for En Marche! Upon his death, Muriel Pénicaud, the French Minister of Labour, tweeted that Maire ""transformed and inspired industrial relations."" Edmond Maire Edmond Maire (; 24 January 1931 – 1 October 2017) was a French labor union leader. He was the secretary general of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CFDT) from 1971 to 1988. He was"
"struggle stayed unshaken"", while acknowledging that Bevan was not a traditional Marxist. Despite declaring inspiration from Marx, Bevan did not visibly support insurrectionist concepts of proletarian revolution, arguing that revolution depended on the circumstances, or the Leninist organisational model of democratic centralism typical of many Communist parties. According to Ed Balls, Bevan and his supporters instead preferred a strident but pluralist conception of democratic socialism, tempered by pragmatic sensibilities and practical application. The Bevanite Group of MPs, of which there were about 3 dozen, coalesced following Bevan's resignation from the Cabinet in 1951 when the health service started charging for"
"of the Labour movement are institutionally anti-Semitic"". In May 2016, American political scientist Norman Finkelstein (whose graphic was shared by MP Naz Shah) described the controversy as ""obscene"". Referring to those on the right of the Labour Party allegedly using the scandal as a means of undermining Corbyn, Finkelstein asked ""What are they doing? Don't they have any respect for the dead? ... All these desiccated Labour apparatchiks, dragging the Nazi holocaust through the mud for the sake of their petty jostling for power and position. Have they no shame?"" In May 2016, the vice-chair of Momentum, Jackie Walker, was"
"Vermin Club The Vermin Club was an organisation of grassroots Conservative Party supporters in Britain in the late 1940s. On the evening of 4 July 1948, Aneurin Bevan, the Labour Government's Minister of Health, addressed the annual Labour rally for the North of England at Belle Vue, Manchester, and described Conservatives as ""lower than vermin"". This was at a point when Conservative fortunes were starting to turn and Bevan's Labour Party was facing disillusionment and division. Young Tories took on the description with ironic self-deprecation and set up the Vermin Club. Members took to wearing ""vermin"" badges (a chrome badge"
"he enjoyed a position of great influence as keeper of the party's conscience, similar to, but much more powerful than, the position of John Prescott relative to Tony Blair forty years later. Moreover, by the end of 1959 Bevan was seriously unwell; he withdrew from the public eye and died in July 1960. In March 1960 the NEC agreed a new statement of Labour's aims as an addition to Clause IV rather than a replacement. Throughout the summer of 1960 union conferences, many of whose rule books had their own equivalent to Clause IV, were hostile to the new proposal,"
"positive reviews, it has attracted support within the party for the diversity of its contributors and broad range of topics covered within the book. The book has been criticised for its lack of female contribution, as only 3 out of the 28 contributors are women, and failure to adequately address the European Union and Internationalism. The front cover has garnered attention for its creativity, which consists of an artificially staged photo montage of all ten former post-war Labour leaders. Criticism has also been levelled for the non-inclusion of Margaret Beckett and Harriet Harman as they were also classed as Labour"
"Ty-Trist Colliery. David Bevan had been a supporter of the Liberal Party in his youth, but was converted to socialism by the writings of Robert Blatchford in the ""Clarion"" and joined the Independent Labour Party. It was around this time that he first ""reject[ed] his chapel upbringing"" and became an atheist. Aneurin Bevan also joined the Tredegar branch of the South Wales Miners' Federation and became a trade union activist: he was head of his local Miners' Lodge at only nineteen years of age. Bevan became a well-known local orator and was seen by his employers, the Tredegar Iron Company,"
"split the Bevanites with many, such as leading Bevanite Michael Foot, continuing to oppose Britain's nuclear weapons, with Labour's 1983 manifesto under Foot's leadership of the party calling for unilateral nuclear disarmament. Bevanism Bevanism was the ideological argument for the Bevanites, a movement on the left wing of the Labour Party in the late 1950s and typified by Aneurin Bevan. Also called 'the Old Left', it was named after its dominant personality; however its intellectual direction was given by Richard Crossman and his followers including Michael Foot and Barbara Castle. Bevanism was opposed by the Gaitskellites, who are variously described"
"huge German trade union and labour movement as partly the fault of the communists’ divisive tactics. He and Bevin were determined to prevent such an occurrence in Britain and this perhaps gave them a heightened sense of communist conspiracy in their dealings with internal opposition within the unions and the Labour Party. This caused much hostility to him amongst minority Left forces, such as the Socialist League, which would colour the attitude of many on the Left to him thereafter. Michael Foot’s biography of Nye Bevan is indicative of this. Citrine wrote that his robust exposure of the Comintern and"
"In the 1951 general election, Labour narrowly lost to Churchill's Conservatives, despite receiving the larger share of the popular vote – its highest ever vote numerically. Most of the changes introduced by the 1945–51 Labour government were accepted by the Conservatives and became part of the ""post-war consensus"" that lasted until the late 1970s. Food and clothing rationing, however, still in place since the war, were swiftly relaxed, then abandoned from about 1953. Following the defeat of 1951 the party spent 13 years in opposition. The party suffered an ideological split, between the party's left-wing followers of Aneurin Bevan (known"
"(37.5%), whilst duties on alcohol, petrol and sugar were hiked, and a 60% tax on excess profits was introduced. Simon's political position weakened as he came to be seen as a symbol of foot-dragging and lack of commitment to total war. Along with Labour's dislike of Chamberlain he was used as an excuse by the Opposition parties for not joining the government on the outbreak of war. Archibald Sinclair, leader of the ""official"" Liberal Party, said that for over seven years Simon had been ""the evil genius of British foreign policy"". Hugh Dalton and Clement Attlee were very critical of"
"Leader. Upon election, Askin declared that ""One of my main tasks will be to sell our [Liberal Party] ideas and principles to the working man."" When Premier Cahill died on 22 October 1959, he was replaced by Askin's friend and parliamentary contemporary, Robert ""Bob"" Heffron, which tended to calm his aggression and opposition towards the government. At the March 1962 election, Labor had been in power for 21 years and Heffron had since been Premier for 2 and a half years. Heffron was 72 at the time of the election and his age and the longevity of the government were"
"by liberal economist William Beveridge. The creation of Britain's publicly funded National Health Service under health minister Aneurin Bevan remains Labour's proudest achievement. However the Labour Party had developed no detailed nationalization plans. Improvising, they started with the Bank of England, civil aviation, coal and Cable and Wireless. Then came railways, canals, road haulage and trucking, electricity, and gas. Finally came iron and steel, which was a special case because it was a manufacturing industry. Altogether, about one fifth of the economy was taken over. Labour dropped the notion of nationalising farms. On the whole nationalisation went smoothly, with two"