Roy Hattersley
Overview
British people
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Labour politician, author and journalist
Journalist
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from Sheffield. He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.
Roy Hattersley has been a socialist and Labour supporter from his youth, electioneering at the age of 12 for his local MP and city councillors, beginning in 1945. His own mother, Enid Hattersley
Enid Hattersley
Enid Hattersley was an English Labour Party politician from Sheffield, who became that city's Lord Mayor in 1981. -Early years:...
, was a city councillor, and later, Lord Mayor of Sheffield
Lord Mayor of Sheffield
The Lord Mayor of Sheffield is a ceremonial post held by a member of Sheffield City Council. They are elected annually by the council. The post originated in 1843, with the appointment of William Jeffcock as the first Mayor of Sheffield...
(in 1981).
Quotations
Politicians, quite rightly, are not surrounded by mystique. Doctors, quite wrongly, too often are.
To a certain sort of half-wit, obscenities are testosterone turned into the spoken word.
On Johnny Rotten