ABSTRACT
Harold Wilson became leader of the Labour Party after the death of Hugh Gaitskell in 1963. By the late 1960s, however, Wilson had become unpopular with the left wing of his Party, as well as with students and others. Wilson appointed Michael Stewart as Secretary of State for Education in 1964. Tony Crosland became Secretary of State for Education until 1967. Jenny Lee was an imaginative appointment as Minister for the Arts, and she also had responsibility for the new, and very successful, Open University. In 1967 Crosland was replaced by Patrick Gordon-Walker who was by then regarded as a very lame duck. This appointment may have shown that Wilson allowed kindness to prevail over judgement when he appointed GordonWalker. In terms of education a gap was caused by a lack of interest in education by senior Labour politicians and a lack of educational vision by those who were responsible for education policy.
