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Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British politician and writer who served as the sixth president of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981.
Roy Jenkins was a British politician, a strong supporter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Community. Formerly a Labourite, he was the first leader of the Social Democratic Party (1982–83) and later was leader of the Social and Liberal Democratic Peers (1988–98).
Mar 26, 2014 · The broken legacy of Roy Jenkins. He was the most successful chancellor since the 1940s and the most radical home secretary since WW1, responsible for the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the SDP. Yet a decade after his death, his social-liberal world-view is in crisis.
May 14, 2018 · Roy Harris Jenkins (born 1920), British Labour politician and author, was a leading member of the cabinet before becoming president of the European Community and later a founder of the Social Democratic Party.
Jan 5, 2003 · Roy Jenkins was a civilised, liberal, decent politician, for those who liked him. For harsher critics he was a snob who had betrayed his party and his working-class roots. He had set out...
Sep 24, 2004 · Jenkins was author or sponsor of most of the liberalising legislation that broke decisively the power of the state over the nation’s social mores. This revolution has proved every bit as...
Jan 6, 2003 · Roy Jenkins, a Welsh miner's son who became a Socialist cabinet minister and president of the European Commission in Brussels and then tried to break the mold of British...
Roy Jenkins was a civilized, liberal, decent politician, for those who liked him. For harsher critics, he was a snob who had betrayed his party and his working-class roots. He had set out to be prime minister but his focus was never on politics alone.
BIOGRAPHY. Member of the House of Lords. Chancellor of Oxford University. Former deputy leader of the Labour Party and president of the European Commission. Co-founder of the Social Democratic Party. Author of Truman, Baldwin, and others. Primary Contributions (1)
Roy Jenkins. The Rt Hon Roy Jenkins died on 5th January 2003. He was most recently the Social Democratic Party MP for Glasgow, Hillhead, and left the Commons on 11 June 1987.
