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Roy Jenkins entered the Cabinet in 1965 as Home Secretary in the Wilson government. He held this post until 1967 and presided over the liberalization of laws on divorce, abortion, and homosexuality. Critics later derided these measures as encouraging the permissive society: Jenkins preferred to call it the civilized society.
1 de dic. de 2017 · Roy Jenkins was not just the first British president of the European Commission. Barring the improbable, he will go down in history as the only Briton who ever held the office.With few exceptions, the United Kingdom has sent politicians of considerable caliber to Brussels. Surprisingly for a country that defends its national interests with terrier-like determination, those commissioners have ...
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British Labour Party, SDP and Liberal Democrat politician, and biographer of British political leaders. Jenkins was elected to Parliament as a Labour MP in 1948. He served as Home Secretary from 1965 to 1967 and Chancellor of the Exchequer between ...
29 de sept. de 2023 · Leeroy Jenkins was one of the internet's first viral videos, dropping sometime in the mid-2000s and quickly becoming a key part of early internet history. The fail video showed a campaign for the popular RPG game World of Warcraft going horribly wrong, and became viral despite some reports that the video may be staged.
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 ...
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. His term in this office is still lauded as an era of effective and progressive reform.
John Campbell. Cape, pp. 818. In any list of the-best-prime-ministers-we never-had, the name of Roy Jenkins is likely to be prominent. He was intelligent, moderate, courteous, thoughtful: he was ...
