Roy Hattersley

Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook in the County of West Midlands, PC ( born December 28, 1932 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) is a British politician.

Biography

After school he studied at the University of Hull and was followed as a journalist and then as a civil servant in the health service operates.

His political career began initially in local politics as a member of the Town Council of Sheffield (Sheffield City Council), before he became in 1964 first elected as a Labour candidate for the Member of Parliament (House of Commons ), and this remained a member until 1997. As such, he was one of the supporters of British membership in the European Communities ( EC).

In March 1974, he was appointed to his second term of Prime Minister Harold Wilson to the Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Foreign and Commonwealth Office ). In the subsequent government of Prime Minister James Callaghan, he was appointed in April 1976 to the Minister for Prices and Consumer Protection ( Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection) and was part of this government until the end of Callaghan's term of office in May 1979.

After the election defeat of the Labour Party at the general election in 1979, he was initially opposition spokesman for the environment, and then from 1980 to 1983 for domestic policy and, as such, a member of the shadow cabinet ( Shadow Home Secretary ).

Hattersley, which belongs to the right wing of the Labour Party candidate in 1983 for the post of chairman of the Labour Party after Michael Foot resigned because of the re- election defeats at the general election in 1983. However, Hattersley subject while significantly Neil Kinnock and instead was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and has held this position until 1992. At the same time he first was from 1983 to 1987 a member of the shadow cabinet of Finance ( Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer ) and off again for domestic policy to 1992.

After the Labour Party was defeated by the Conservative Party of Prime Minister John Major even in the general election in 1992, he met with the party chairman Kinnock back as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. New Leader of the Labour Party was then John Smith, while Margaret Beckett succeeded him as Deputy Chairman.

After his retirement from the House of Commons, he was raised as a life peer in 1997 with the title of Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook in the County of West Midlands in the peerage, and thereby also a member of the Upper House (House of Lords).

As a well-known politician, he was also part of Da Ali G Show, and one of the characters in the satirical TV show "Spitting Image ".

Publications

Hattersley is also active as an author and regular writer of articles in newspapers, journals and magazines. In addition to several short stories published in 1995 his autobiography under the title "Who Goes Home? Scenes From a Political Life. " In 2003, his book " The Life of John Wesley. A Brand from the Burning ". To his publications include:

  • Goodbye to Yorkshire. 1976, ISBN 0-575-02201-9.
  • Press Gang. 1983, ISBN 0-86051-205-3.
  • A Yorkshire Boyhood. 1983, ISBN 0-7011-2613-2.
  • Choose Freedom: Future of Democratic Socialism. 1987, ISBN 0-14-010494-1.
  • The Maker 's Mark. 1990, ISBN 0-333-47032- X.
  • In fact, Quiet Earth. 1993, ISBN 0-330-32303-2.
  • Skylark 's Song. 1993, ISBN 0-333-55608-9.
  • Between Ourselves. 1994, ISBN 0-330-32574-4.
  • Who Goes Home: Scenes from a Political Life. 1995, ISBN 0-316-87669-0.
  • No discouragement: An Autobiography. 1996, ISBN 0-333-64957-5.
  • 50 Years on: prejudiced History of Britain Since the War. 1997, ISBN 0-316-87932-0.
  • Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army. 1999, ISBN 0-316-85161-2.
  • Buster's Diaries. 1999, ISBN 0-7515-2917-6.
  • The Life of John Wesley: A Brand from the Burning. 2002, ISBN 978-0-385-50334-1.
  • The Edwardians: Biography of the Edwardian Age. Abacus, 2004, ISBN 0-316-72537-4.
  • David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider. Little Brown, 2010 ISBN 978-1-4087-0097-6

Swell

  • Chambers Biographical Dictionary. Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2, S.691.
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