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'''Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE}} (9 April 1906 – 18 January 1963) was a [[British]] politician, and leader of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] 1955–1963. He was also [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] under [[Clement Attlee]]. He read [[Philosophy, Politics and Economics]] at New College, [[University of Oxford]]. After an [[academic]] career at [[University College London]] he became the [[Member of Parliament|MP]] for [[Leeds]] South in [[1945]].

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