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11 de ago. de 2017 · It is perhaps not surprising that the search for a British candidate for the Commission Presidency in 1976 quickly led to Roy Jenkins: after all, Jenkins had been one of the most vocal proponents of British membership of the European Community (EC) since the 1950s, gaining him the deserved reputation as ‘Britain’s leading pro-European alongside Edward Heath’ (p. 14).
1 de may. de 2002 · Roy Jenkins -- chancellor of Oxford University, former Labour chancellor of the Exchequer, and prolific author -- is no blockhead. And the enduring public interest in the greatest and most interesting Briton of the twentieth century gave him confidence that the public would welcome yet another biography of the man who beat Hitler.
Roy Harris Jenkins was born on 11 November 1920, in Abersychan, South Wales. His father, Arthur Jenkins, was an official in the South Wales Miners’ Federation who became MP for Pontypool and Parliamentary Private Secretary to Clement Attlee. His mother, Hattie, came from a more well-to-do background. From his parents, Jenkins gained a sense ...
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.…
25 de sept. de 2023 · Roy Jenkins Remembered by Michael Cockerell. Political interviewer Michael Cockerell introduces his acclaimed profile of Roy Jenkins, the man who, as home secretary in the 1960s, helped transform ...
23 de mar. de 2014 · M any years ago, shortly after Roy Jenkins and his fellow conspirators left Labour to set up their own party, I was asked by the now defunct New Socialist magazine to write an in-depth profile of ...
6 de ene. de 2003 · Jenkins is survived by his wife, Dame Jennifer, whom he married in 1945, their sons Charles and Edward, and daughter Cynthia. · Roy Harris Jenkins, Lord Jenkins of Hillhead, politician and writer ...
