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5 days ago · It was Roy Jenkins who once observed that the first attribute of a successful prime minister is not a first-class mind, but a first-class temperament. Jenkins was only partially right.
5 days ago · Roy Jenkins tried to do a Macron and create a centrist political party withh the SDP in the 1980s. It didn't take. First-past-the-post is too brutal towards smaller outfits. When Macron launched En Marche in 2016, he changed everything. He destroyed the traditional right and left.
23 hours ago · Roy Jenkins has suggested that Wilson may have been motivated partly by the distaste for politics felt by his loyal and long-suffering wife, Mary. His doctor had detected problems which would later be diagnosed as colon cancer, and Wilson had begun drinking brandy during the day to cope with stress.
3 days ago · Roy Jenkins, former Labour MP and member of 'the gang of four' which founded the SDP visiting Warrington for a by-election in 1981. (Image: Newsquest) Stuart Wilks-Heeg, Professor of Politics at the University of Liverpool, said: “The Liberals and the SDP have very different origins, but from 1981 to 1988 they were joined at the hip.
4 days ago · Something of a blast from the past, the original SDP was founded by the so-called 'gang of four' Labour politicians – Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams. The party struggled to gain electoral success and most members of the original SDP merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the Liberal Democrats.
4 days ago · He was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in October 1919 and lent his name to Britain's proposed Soviet-Polish boundary, the Curzon Line.
4 days ago · A commission was set up, led by Roy Jenkins, to examine alternative electoral voting systems for the UK parliament. It reported in 1998 and recommended that the first-past-the-post electoral system be replaced with a proportional representation [PR] electoral system.
