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The '''1960 Labour Party leadership election''' was held when, for the first time since 1955, the incumbent leader [[Hugh Gaitskell]] was challenged for re-election. Normally the annual re-election of the leader had been a formality. Gaitskell had lost the [[1959 United Kingdom general election|1959 general election]] and had seen the Labour Party conference adopt a policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament which he considered disastrous and refused to support. A vacancy in the deputy leadership was first made by the death of incumbent [[Aneurin Bevan]].
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* [[Hugh Gaitskell]] (born 1906), had been MP for [[Leeds South (UK Parliament constituency)|Leeds South]] since 1945 and served as [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] in 1950-1951. Gaitskell was elected party leader in 1955. He was aligned with the right wing of the party.
* [[Harold Wilson]] (born 1916), the MP for [[Ormskirk (UK Parliament constituency)|Ormskirk]] from
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