Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett

Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett, PC ( born October 14, 1923 in Manchester ) is a British politician ( Labour ).

Life

Barnett was born in 1923 in Manchester and attended the Derby Street Jewish School and then the Manchester Central High School, while he got a scholarship. With the help of distance learning courses and courses at night school he became an accountant and tax auditor, as he later lived in Manchester and worked. During World War II he was stationed in the Royal Army Service Corps and after the war ended with the occupation forces in Germany.

Policy

Barnett had been politically the Labour Party connected, for which he was from 1956 to 1959 the city council of Prestwich in Lancashire. From 1960 he was justice of the peace of that county and as a long time member of the Fabian Society, he was from 1953 to 1956 its Honorary Treasurer. In 1959 he was first prepared for the ' Division of Runcorn Cheshire in the general election. In the first attempt he was not elected, only when he started in 1964 in the same county, he was elected to Parliament. In the House he belonged, among others, to the Committees on public credit and public spending. From 1967 to 1970 he was Chairman of the Economic and Financial Committee of his group. From 1970 to 1974 he was speaker of the opposition in matters of the Treasury.

After the Labour Party came back to the government in March 1974, Barnett was Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey Chief Secretary ( Chief Secretary ) to the Treasury. In the reshuffle of the Cabinet Callaghan in February 1977 he was member of the government and in 1975 he was appointed to the Privy Counsellor. Barnett 's since 1949 with Lillian, nee Goldstone, married and has a daughter.