AHC/WI: Left-wing Gang of Four (UK)

It certainly seems that the key aspect is the lack of any significant individuals leading any kind of left split from Labour, as we've already established beyond much doubt that the key left figures (Foot & Benn) would never leave the party due to their own loyalty regardless of the direction it would go in. I suppose we could see that with Benn during the Smith and Blair years, in hindsight.

Even though one of the ideas we've been going for is a 1963 PoD with having Brown succeed Gaitskell over Wilson, itself a key suggestion of the long-term decline in the influence of the Labour left, would the groundwork to allow such leading lights as Foot, Benn, etc. need to put down earlier still? Or is that putting forward too much work altogether?

On the Blair years ideas; not what I'd had in mind, but it's certainly an interesting suggestion. I would question whether the left would have had enough clout of allow a split to be of much significant, though I could see under the circumstances presented that the Conservatives might suffer one from their own right-wing Eurosceptic faction in such a situation.
 
Even though one of the ideas we've been going for is a 1963 PoD with having Brown succeed Gaitskell over Wilson, itself a key suggestion of the long-term decline in the influence of the Labour left, would the groundwork to allow such leading lights as Foot, Benn, etc. need to put down earlier still? Or is that putting forward too much work altogether?
I think it would be easier to prevent Benn and Foot rising to prominence in the first place, and have there roles played by other left wingers who are more inclined to defection.
A 1963 PoD could conceivably remove the Benn problem. Seeing as he became more left wing whilst he was a minister, and a George Brown government would likely mean he would either not be in government at all or have a different job which could butterfly away his leftward shift.
As for Foot, reading up on his earlier parliamentary career it would seem that Labour had suspended the whip against him in the early 1960s, a situation which only ended when Wilson became leader. So Brown being leader could significantly alter his standing in the party too.
 
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