British Labour Party politician, author and journalist (born 1932)
The Right Honourable
The Lord Hattersley
PC FRSL
Hattersley in 2012
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
In office 2 October 1983 – 18 July 1992
Leader
Neil Kinnock
Preceded by
Denis Healey
Succeeded by
Margaret Beckett
Shadow cabinet posts 1979–1992
Shadow Secretary of State
1979–1980
Environment
1980–1983
Home Department
1983–1987
Chancellor of the Exchequer
1987–1992
Home Department
Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection
In office 10 September 1976 – 4 May 1979
Prime Minister
James Callaghan
Preceded by
Shirley Williams
Succeeded by
Office abolished
Junior ministerial posts 1974–1976
Minister of State
1974–1976
Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Shadow cabinet posts 1972–1974
Shadow Secretary of State
1973–1974
Education and Science
Shadow Spokesperson
1972–1974
Trade and Industry
Junior ministerial posts 1967–1970
Minister of State
1969–1970
Defence Administration
Parliamentary Under-Secretary
1968–1969
Employment and Productivity
Parliamentary Secretary
1967–1968
Ministry of Labour
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Life peerage 24 November 1997 – 19 May 2017
Member of Parliament for Birmingham Sparkbrook
In office 15 October 1964 – 8 April 1997
Preceded by
Leslie Seymour
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Personal details
Born
Roy Sydney George Hattersley
(1932-12-28) 28 December 1932 (age 91) Sheffield, England
Political party
Labour
Spouses
Edith Mary "Molly" Loughran
(m. 1956; div. 2013)
Maggie Pearlstine
(m. 2013)
Alma mater
University of Hull
Profession
Journalist
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Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, PC FRSL (born 28 December 1932) is a British politician, author and journalist from Sheffield.[1] A member of the Labour Party, he was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for over 32 years from 1964 to 1997, and served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.[1]
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Labour prime minister, lost a vote of confidence. Labour politician RoyHattersley later remarked that the vote marked "the last rites" of Old Labour....
Prescott and Eric Heffer challenged Labour's incumbent Deputy Leader RoyHattersley. Hattersley had served in the position since 1983. The election was conducted...
October 1983 – 13 July 1987 Leader Neil Kinnock Preceded by RoyHattersley Succeeded by RoyHattersley Shadow Secretary of State for the Environment In office...
after John Smith's death, RoyHattersley telephoned Blair and urged him to stand for the Party leadership. Blair informed Hattersley that he was worried about...
one of whom is literary agent Maggie Pearlstine Hattersley (married to British politician RoyHattersley). He graduated from The Hill School and then received...
Opposition from 2 October 1983 to 18 July 1992. He convincingly defeated RoyHattersley, Eric Heffer, and Peter Shore in the 1983 leadership election, which...
publicly. RoyHattersley, Kevin Hickson. The Socialist Way: Social Democracy in Contemporary Britain. I.B.Tauris, Jul 30, 2013. P213. RoyHattersley, Kevin...
Thatcher puppet. Before the final chorus, the puppets of Neil Kinnock and RoyHattersley appear, with the latter asking "Still think you can control them, Neil...
the Report of the Constitution Committee, or the Hattersley Memorandum for short (by RoyHattersley, Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office...
and took aim at the four venerated figures. British Labour politician RoyHattersley wrote: "Lytton Strachey's elegant, energetic character assassinations...
Twenty pupils were offered places at Oxford or Cambridge. In 2007, RoyHattersley, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and minister, reported on...
and other celebrity friends. Also in 1993, Basil appeared alongside RoyHattersley on the BBC comedy series Fantasy Football League with Frank Skinner...
and an ally of Tony Benn, and stood as the left's candidate against RoyHattersley in the 1983 deputy leadership election. Meacher was an elected member...
anything other than policies. RoyHattersley, spitting with every word because of his lisp (on 'Best Ever Spitting Image', Hattersley praised his puppet for...
papers are held at the London School of Economics. Eduard Bernstein RoyHattersley Reformism Dick Leonard Frederick Edward Raven on the German language...
to the 15 members elected, the Leader (Neil Kinnock), Deputy Leader (RoyHattersley), Labour Chief Whip (Michael Cocks), Labour Leader in the House of Lords...
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