Roy Hattersley Dies at 93, Ending 33-Year Commons Career
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Updated · BBC.com · Jun 14
Roy Hattersley Dies at 93, Ending 33-Year Commons Career
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jun 14
Summary
Roy Hattersley, Labour’s former deputy leader under Neil Kinnock, has died aged 93 after a political career spanning more than three decades in Parliament.
1964 marked his entry to the Commons as MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook, a seat he held for 33 years before becoming Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook in 1997.
Hattersley served as a cabinet minister under James Callaghan in the 1970s and spent nine years as Labour deputy leader after the party’s 1983 defeat to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives.
Keir Starmer called him “a giant of the Labour movement,” while deputy leader Lucy Powell said he had helped shape both the Labour Party and British politics.