That year he was made Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Education Secretary Anthony Crosland, with whom Dewar later confessed to never really establishing a rapport, saying Crosland was a " very odd man ".

His university colleagues included Tony Crosland, Denis Healey, and Edward Heath, and he became friends with all three, although he was never particularly close to Healey.

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.

British Petroleum, privatised in 1987, was officially nationalised in 1951, and there was further government intervention during the 1974 – 79 Labour Government Anthony Crosland said that in 1956, 25 per cent of British industry was nationalised, and that public employees, including those in nationalised industries, constituted a similar percentage of the country's total employed population.

According to Crosland, it was now possible to achieve greater equality in society without the need for " fundamental " economic transformation.

For Crosland, a more meaningful form of equality could be achieved if the growth dividend derived from effective management of the economy was invested in " pro-poor " public services rather than through fiscal redistribution.

He defeated George Brown, who was hampered by a reputation as an erratic figure and who was mistrusted by the likes of Denis Healey ( Wilson's predecessor as shadow foreign secretary ) and Anthony Crosland, in a straight contest in the second round of balloting, after James Callaghan, who had entered the race as an alternative to Brown, had been eliminated in the first round.

For Crosland, the relevance of nationalization ( or public ownership ) for socialists was much reduced as a consequence of contemporary full employment, Keynesian management of the economy and reduced capitalist exploitation.

Anthony Crosland helped him get the seat as he was the MP for nearby South Gloucestershire at the time.

His second wife was Eve Crosland, whom Taylor married in 1951 and divorced in 1974 ; he had two children by her.

He was a junior minister throughout Labour's time in power from 1974 to 1979, first in the Department for the Environment ( 1974 – 75 ) under Anthony Crosland, then in the Department of Industry under Eric Varley ( Minister of State, 1975 – 79 ).

Anthony Crosland was a leading revisionist socialist thinker in 1950s British politics.

Five months later, however, the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Crosland died suddenly and Owen was appointed his successor.

Bragg was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, one of the six sons of Thomas and Margaret Crosland Bragg.

The station, WDAA, was born when Doctor C. E. Crosland, Associate President, realized the potential advertising value to the college of a radio station.

The party's fiercest opponent of the Grammar school was Gaitskell's protégé, Anthony Crosland.

Crosland, was a British Labour Party politician and author.

Crosland was born at St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.

His father, Joseph Beardsall Crosland, was a senior official at the War Office.

Anthony Crosland argued in 1956 that under the impact of the 1931 slump and the growth of fascism, the younger generation of left-wing intellectuals for the most part " took to Marxism " including the " best-known leaders " of the Fabian tradition, Sidney and Beatrice Webb.

In particular, Crosland wished to challenge the dominance of Sidney and Beatrice Webb in Fabian thinking, challenging their austere, managerialist, centralising, " top-down ", bureaucratic Fabianism with a more liberal vision of the good society and the good life, writing in The Future of Socialism that " Total abstinence and a good filing system are not now the right signposts to the socialist utopia.

* Cocteau, Jean, Opium: The Diary of a Cure, translated by Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road, Grove Press Inc., New York, 1958

New conservatism attempted to distinguish itself from the socialism of Anthony Crosland by concentrating welfare on those in need and encouraging people to help themselves, rather than foster dependency on the state.

New Labour has been influenced by the political thinking of Anthony Crosland, the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and Peter Mandelson's and Alastair Campbell's media campaigning.

* Crosland and New Labour-Dick Leonard ( editor ), 1999, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 0-333-73990-6

“ Crosland Territory ”, New Left Review, no.

Born in New York City, New York to a well-to-do family, Alan Crosland attended Dartmouth College.

Crosland began his career in the motion picture industry in 1912 at Edison Studios in The Bronx, New York, where he worked at various jobs for two years until he had learned the business sufficiently well to begin directing short films.

Two further books of essays published by Crosland were The Conservative Enemy ( London, Cape, 1962 ) and Socialism Now, and Other Essays ( London, Cape, 1974 ).

After the war, Crosland returned to Oxford University and obtained a First Class Honours degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, which he studied in 12 months ; he also became President of the Oxford Union.

Crosland returned to the House of Commons at the 1959 general election when he was elected for Grimsby, which he would represent for the rest of his life.

In 1976 the club saw what could be said to be its most prestigious visitor when the local Member of Parliament and then Foreign Secretary Anthony Crosland invited the then American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to watch the Mariners play Gillingham.

After his retirement in 2001 Radice, wrote Friends and Rivals, an acclaimed triple biography of three modernisers from an earlier generation — Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey, and Anthony Crosland, arguing that their failure to work more closely together had harmed the modernising cause.

The most influential revisionist Labour thinker, Anthony Crosland ..., contended that a more " benevolent " form of capitalism had emerged since the World War ...

Supporters of the mixed economy, including R. H. Tawney, Anthony Crosland and Andrew Shonfield were mostly associated with the British Labour Party, although similar views were expressed by Conservatives including Harold Macmillan.

In 1952 Bevan published In Place of Fear, " the most widely read socialist book " of the period, according to a highly critical right-wing Labour MP Anthony Crosland.

These include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, Gerard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter, John Venn the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister Charles Clarke.

Despite the support of Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland he did not gain a ministerial position until 1967, joining Ray Gunter at the Ministry of Labour.

Labour had won the 1964 election, and Anthony Crosland became Secretary of State for Education in January 1965.

Many on the right of the Labour Party, most notably Anthony Crosland and Denis Healey, supported James Callaghan for the leadership.

Crosland, who had been talent-spotted by Hugh Dalton, was chosen as a Labour candidate in December 1949 to fight the next general election.

Even though they were from the same wing of the party, the thought of the Labour Party being led by the very effective but volatile George Brown appalled Crosland, but he also was a critic of Harold Wilson for his apparent lack of principles.

Crosland was seen as a leader and intellectual guru of the " right wing " or " social democratic " wing of the Labour Party in the 1970s.

Hitchens contends the modern Labour Party was formed by struggles in the 1980s and a programme of " social liberalism, egalitarian education and the sexual revolution " envisaged in the 1950s by figures such as Anthony Crosland and Roy Jenkins.

In 1956, for example, leading British Labour Party politician and author Anthony Crosland claimed that capitalism had been abolished in Britain and socialism established, although others, such as Welshman Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health in the first post-war Labour government, disputed the claim that Britain was a socialist state.

The present MP, Austin Mitchell, won the seat in a 1977 by-election following the death of his predecessor, the Foreign Secretary Tony Crosland, by only 520 votes ; but on the same day that Mitchell held Grimsby, Labour lost Ashfield, in the next county and apparently equally impregnable, on a 21 % swing.