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5 de ene. de 2014 · Roy Jenkins, UK Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the 1960s Labour Government, looks back at his life and career in politics.BBC documentary ...
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14 de may. de 2018 · Roy Jenkins was born on November 11, 1920, the son of Arthur Jenkins, a Welsh miner who became an officer of his union and later a Labour member of Parliament. Roy was educated at Abersychan Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he took first class honors in politics, philosophy, and economics in 1941, having already been active in student politics and debate.
Fils d’Arthur Jenkins, mineur devenu député travailliste de 1935 à 1946, Roy Jenkins fait ses études à l’université d’Oxford. Combattant pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il est démobilisé comme capitaine.
17 de sept. de 2018 · Roy Jenkins, 1967-70 Labour, under Wilson You can read about his time as home secretary and the rest of his career here. After the devaluation crisis, Jenkins was simultaneously the leading figure in Wilson’s government, Wilson’s most likely successor and the man under the most pressure in an intensely febrile period in British political history.…
13 de dic. de 2012 · Roy Jenkins was the author of many books, including Churchill and Gladstone, which won the Whitbread Prize for Biography.Active in British politics for half a century, he entered the House of Commons in 1948 and subsequently served as Minister of Aviation, Home Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer; he was also the President of the European Commission and Chancellor of Oxford University.
7 de ene. de 2003 · Radical Roy. Since Roy Jenkins' death on Sunday, the papers have been full of tributes to a political giant. Here we reprint an extract from his most influential speech. Mon 6 Jan 2003 21.35 EST ...
When asked to name a famous Welsh politician, most would turn to one of the two great orators, David Lloyd George or Aneurin Bevan. Yet Roy Jenkins, a native of Pontypool and son of Monmouthshire miners leader Arthur Jenkins, was Home Secretary twice, between 1965-67 and 1974-76, as well as serving as a popular Chancellor between 1967 and 1970.
