Roy Hattersley
Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley , PC (born December 28, 1932 in Sheffield , South Yorkshire , England ) is a British politician .
biography
After finishing school, he studied at the University of Hull and then worked as a journalist and then as a civil servant in the health service.
His political career he initially started in local politics as a member of the City Council of Sheffield (Sheffield City Council) before 1964 as a candidate of the Labor Party for the first time a member of the lower house (House of Commons) was chosen and this belonged to the 1997th As such, he was one of the supporters of British membership in the European Communities (EC) .
In March 1974 he was named Secretary of State in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in the second term of Prime Minister Harold Wilson . In the subsequent government of Prime Minister James Callaghan , he was in April 1976 to the Minister for prices and consumer protection called (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 1979th
After the defeat of the Labor Party in the general election in 1979 , he was initially spokesman for the opposition for environmental protection , and then from 1980 to 1983 for domestic policy and as such a member of the shadow cabinet (Shadow Home Secretary).
Hattersley, who belongs to the right wing of the Labor Party, ran for the office of chairman of the Labor Party in 1983 after Michael Foot resigned because of the repeated defeats in the 1983 general election . However, Hattersley was clearly defeated by Neil Kinnock and instead became Deputy Chairman of the Labor Party and held this position until 1992. At the same time, he was a member of the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1983 to 1987 and then again for domestic policy until 1992 .
In the election for Vice Chairmanship of the Labor Party in 1988, he was able to prevail clearly against his challengers John Prescott and Eric Heffer .
After the Labor Party was defeated in the general election in 1992 against the Conservative Party of Prime Minister John Major , he resigned together with the party chairman Kinnock as deputy chairman of the Labor Party. The Labor Party was then headed by John Smith , while Margaret Beckett followed him as Vice-Chair.
After leaving the House of Commons, he was raised to the nobility as a Life Peer in 1997 with the title Baron Hattersley , of Sparkbrook in the County of West Midlands, and thus also a member of the House of Lords .
A well-known politician, he was also part of the Da Ali G Show and one of the characters on the satirical television show " Spitting Image ".
Publications
Hattersley is also a writer and a regular contributor to daily newspapers , journals and magazines. In addition to several novels , his autobiography was published in 1995 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 ". His publications include:
- Goodbye to Yorkshire . 1976, ISBN 0-575-02201-9 .
- Press gear . 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 That 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
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- Chambers Biographical Dictionary . Edinburgh 2002, ISBN 0-550-10051-2 , p. 691.
- rulers.org
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hattersley, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hattersley, Roy Sydney George, Baron Hattersley (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British politician, member of the House of Commons |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 28, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sheffield , South Yorkshire , England |