In the 1981 Crosby by-election, the Conservatives tried to make an issue of the claim that Shirley Williams wanted to abolish private schools. Williams ducked the charge by saying it didn't matter what she thought because under the ECHR no British government could abolish them.

I can see at least four (past and future) prime ministers in this video. Clement Attlee.Harold Macmillan.Harold Wilson.Ted Heath

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Scenes from Hugh Gaitskell's memorial service at Westminster Abbey in January 1963. In this week's 'Since Attlee & Churchill' podcast, @LeeDavidEvansUK & I discuss whether Gaitskell's sudden death was the most significant of any Labour politician. Part of a 3 part mini-series

My piece on the Attlee government's scepticism toward the ECHR, which they believed would threaten socialist economic policies. [No paywall].

RT @Telegraph: ✍️ 'It is a curious fact that Starmer now cheers the very document that previous socialist governments viewed with horror' |….

My piece on the Attlee government's aversion to the European Convention on Human Rights as an obstacle to socialist economic policies.

RT @LeeDavidEvansUK: 🚨 NEW PODCAST: Labour Lives Cut Short: Hugh Gaitskell. @richardmarcj and I are beginning a new mini-series on the Labo….

In this week's episode, we begin with Hugh Gaitskell, who died in 1963 at 56. He was, at the time, Leader of the Labour Party and poised to lead Labour into the next election. He was, in many respects, at the apex of his career when he died from a mysterious infection.

For the mini-series, we narrowed our selection to the three we think are most significant. Hugh Gaitskell.John Smith.Tony Crosland . Gaitskell & Smith would almost certainly have become prime ministers had they lived. Crosland may have become leader, although this is less certain

We drew up a long list of significant post-war Labour politicians who died before they'd retired from politics:. Ellen Wilkinson.Ernest Bevin.Stafford Cripps.Nye Bevan.Hugh Gaitskell.Dick Crossman.Tony Crosland.Donald Dewar.Bernie Grant.Robin Cook.Mo Mowlam.Jo Cox

'LABOUR LIVES LOST'. The next mini-series of the Since Attlee & Churchill podcast. @LeeDavidEvansUK and I ask,. Who was the most significant Labour politician to die prematurely?. Who would have made the biggest impact on the party/country had they lived?

Interesting piece by Sir Bill Cash on the (in)compatibility of the government's EU reset measures and the sovereignty clauses in the withdrawal legislation. Cash cites the poll I commissioned earlier this month on the British public's attitudes to sovereignty.

RT @SidKhurana3607: Connecticut's reddest town is Sterling (pop. 3578), a rural area in the northeast corner of the state. Last voted D in….

'Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters US, let him get an eagle on his button, & a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pockets, and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship in the United States'. F Douglass

Class politics in the 1872 election. President Ulysses Grant is called 'the Galena Tanner'.Senator Henry Wilson is called 'the Natick Shoemaker'. Grant had worked in his father's tannery. Wilson had been a shoemaker & came from a very poor background, being an indentured servant.

RT @CapelLofft: I am delighted to have this positive review of my book 'The Rage of Party' in the Telegraph today from .@timothy_stanley. '….

Before 1941, *every* single Chief Justice of the United States had been elected to some office before becoming a member of the Supreme Court. Since 1941, only one Chief Justice has been elected to public office (Earl Warren, governor of California).

RT @jhallwood: The pro-ECHR side seems to have taken on board every bad lesson from the Remain campaign and doubled down on what it got wro….

RT @StefanFSchubert: The falling birth rates are tilted towards he left. Left-wing and right-wing voters used to have roughly the same num….

RT @jhallwood: One for the Commons Modernisation Committee to consider - a nice consensus-based chamber as opposed to our adversarial model….