Former Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell and Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan are both cited as "astute politicians".

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Like Gaitskell, Mr Obama now stands accused by his own party's bitter progressives of lacking fire, fight, principle and backbone.

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Lord Wilson, who was born in Huddersfield in 1916, became Labour leader in 1963 on the death of Hugh Gaitskell, and won the general election the following year.

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"If you take all the experiments that have reported results to date, we will surpass them within four days of operating, " says Mr. Gaitskell, who has been searching for dark matter for 24 years.

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He reveals what disease killed Hugh Gaitskell, the leader of the Labour Party before Harold Wilson, and which tie Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservative minister who did most to knock Margaret Thatcher off her perch, was wearing when he resigned.

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