Joel Barnett

Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett , PC (born October 14, 1923 in Manchester , † November 1, 2014 in Bury , Greater Manchester ) was a British politician ( Labor ).

Life

Barnett was born in Manchester in 1923 and attended Derby Street Jewish School and then Manchester Central High School while on a scholarship. With the help of correspondence courses and courses at evening schools, he became an accountant and tax auditor, when he later lived and worked in Manchester again. During the Second World War he was stationed in the Royal Army Service Corps and after the war with the occupying forces in Germany.

politics

Barnett had politically joined the Labor Party , for which he was a councilor in Prestwich, Lancashire from 1956 to 1959. From 1960 he was Justice of the Peace of this county and as a long-time member of the Fabian Society he was its Honorary Treasurer from 1953 to 1956. In 1959 he was first drawn up for the Runcorn Division of Cheshire in the general election. He was not elected in the first attempt, only when he ran in 1964 in the same district, he was elected to parliament. In the House of Commons, he was a member of the committees on public assets 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 the opposition spokesman on Treasury issues.

After the Labor Party returned to government in March 1974, Barnett became Chief Secretary of the Treasury under Chancellor Denis Healey . When the Callaghan cabinet was reshuffled in February 1977 he became a member of the government and in 1975 he was appointed Privy Counselor . Barnett had been married to Lillian, née Goldstone, since 1949 and had one daughter.

literature

• www.munzinger.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Barnett Formula creator and former Treasury chief Lord Barnett dies