He resigned from the Labour front bench in 1970 to become editor of the New Statesman magazine, where he had been assistant editor from 1938 to 1955. He left the New Statesman in 1972. He died in 1974.
Crossman was a prolific writer and editor. He is most famous for his three-volume Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, covering his time in government from 1964 to 1970, published despite a legal battle by the government to prevent their publication. He also edited The God That Failed, a collection of anti-Communist essays published in 1949.
On the left wing of the Parliamentary Labour Party, in 1947 he was a co-author of the Keep Left pamphlet, and later a prominent Bevanite.
He was Labour's spokesman on Education before the 1964 General Election, but upon forming the new Government Harold Wilson appointed Crossman Minister of Housing and Local Government.
Crossman contends that the hardship provision of § 1502-D does not permit relief to one bearing the burden imposed by Rule 68.
As a result of such conflict, Crossman suggests that the rule "trumps the statute." We conclude that Rule 68 and section 1502-D can be read together to avoid any conflict and thereby avoid the need to resort to Rule 81(e).
Crossman argues that while Rule 54(d) makes reference to both the statute and the rules that apply to costs, and states that costs are awarded "unless the court otherwise specifically directs," Rule 68 makes no mention of either the statute or discretion of the court, and thus neither applies.
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