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{{short description|British Labour Party politician, author and journalist (born 1932)}}
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| name                = The Lord Hattersley
| honorific-suffix    = [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|PC]] [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]]
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| office              = [[Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Deputy Leader of the Labour Party]]
| leader              = [[Neil Kinnock]]
| term_start          = 2 October 1983
| term_end            = 18 July 1992
| predecessor         = [[Denis Healey]]
| successor           = [[Margaret Beckett]]
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| office5             = [[Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection]]
| primeminister5      = [[James Callaghan]]
| term_start5         = 10 September 1976
| term_end5           = 4 May 1979
| predecessor5        = [[Shirley Williams]]
| successor5          = ''Office abolished''
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| term_start12        = 24 November 1997
| term_end12          = 19 May 2017
| office13            = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] <br /> for [[Birmingham Sparkbrook]]
| term_start13        = 15 October 1964
| term_end13          = 8 April 1997
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'''Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|PC|FRSL}} (born 28 December 1932) is a British politician, author and journalist from [[Sheffield]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Hattersley, Baron, (Roy Sydney George Hattersley) (born 28 Dec. 1932)|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-19465|access-date=2021-05-05|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u19465|isbn=978-0-19-954088-4 }}</ref> A member of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], he was MP for [[Birmingham Sparkbrook]] for over 32 years from 1964 to 1997, and served as [[Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Deputy Leader of the Labour Party]] from 1983 to 1992.<ref name=":0" />

==Early life==
Roy Hattersley was born on 28 December 1932 in [[Sheffield]], West Riding of Yorkshire, to [[Enid Hattersley|Enid Brackenbury]] and Frederick Roy Hattersley (1902–1973;<ref>''The Catholics: The Church and its People in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the Present Day'', Roy Hattersley, Penguin, 2017, dedication in front matter</ref> also known by his middle name),<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1331135/Enid-Hattersley.html|title=Enid Hattersley|date=21 May 2001|access-date=14 June 2020|work=The Telegraph}}</ref> who married in the 1950s.<ref name=Telegraph170304>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/04/lord-hattersley-married-mother-ran-priest-two-weeks-officiated/ |title= Lord Hattersley: How my married mother ran off with the priest two weeks after he officiated at her wedding |work= The Telegraph |date= 4 March 2017 }}</ref> His mother was a city councillor, and later served as [[Lord Mayor of Sheffield]] (1981). His father, at various times a police officer, clerk at Sheffield town hall, and chairman of the council's Health Committee,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1331135/Enid-Hattersley.html|title=Enid Hattersley|access-date=20 September 2016|date=21 May 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Agenda%253A+Skeletons+in+the+family+cupboard%253B+Labour+grandee+tells+of+his...-a087214386|title=Agenda: Skeletons in the family cupboard; Labour grandee tells of his parents' big secret|via= Free Online Library|date=14 June 2002|work=Western Mail|location=Cardiff, Wales|access-date=20 September 2016}}</ref> was a former Roman Catholic priest,<ref name=Telegraph170304/> the parish priest at St Joseph's at [[Shirebrook]] in [[Derbyshire]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/04/lord-hattersley-married-mother-ran-priest-two-weeks-officiated/|title=Lord Hattersley: How my married mother ran off with the priest two weeks after he officiated at her wedding|first1=Robert|last1=Mendick|first2=Catherine|last2=Pepinster|date=4 March 2017|access-date=14 June 2020|work=The Telegraph}}</ref> who renounced the church and left the priesthood to cohabit with Hattersley's mother, Enid, a married woman at whose wedding he had officiated two weeks earlier; Frederick ultimately died an atheist.<ref>{{cite news|author=Staff|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1331135/Enid-Hattersley.html|title=Enid Hattersley's obituary|work=The Telegraph|date=22 May 2001|access-date=20 May 2010|location=London, UK}}</ref>

==Early political career and education==
Hattersley was a socialist and Labour supporter from his youth, electioneering at the age of 12 for his local MP and city councillors, beginning in 1945. He attended [[The City School (Sheffield)|Sheffield City Grammar School]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Short, sharp aftershock|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2007/sep/18/schools.ofsted|work=The Guardian|date=18 September 2007}}</ref> passing the [[eleven-plus]] (locally known as the "scholarship") on his second attempt in 1945 and went from there to study at the [[University of Hull]]. Having been accepted to read English at the [[University of Leeds]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/feb/12/comment.bookscomment |title=Books for pleasure|work=The Guardian|date= 12 February 2007|access-date= 13 February 2007}}</ref> he was diverted into reading Economics at Hull when told by a Sheffield colleague of his mother that it was necessary for a political career.

At university, Hattersley joined the Socialist Society (SocSoc) and was one of those responsible for changing its name to the "Labour Club" and affiliating it with the non-aligned [[International Union of Socialist Youth]] (IUSY) rather than the Soviet-backed [[International Union of Students]]. Hattersley became chairman of the new club and later treasurer, and he went on to chair the [[National Association of Labour Student Organisations]]. He also joined the executive of the IUSY.

==Member of Parliament==
After graduating Hattersley worked briefly for a Sheffield steelworks and then for two years with the [[Workers' Educational Association]]. He married his first wife, Molly, who became a headteacher and educational administrator. In 1956 he was elected to the City Council as Labour representative for Crookesmoor and was, very briefly, a [[Justice of the peace|JP]]. On the Council he spent time as chairman of the Public Works Committee and then the Housing Committee.

His aim became a [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Westminster]] seat, and he was eventually selected for Labour to stand for election in the [[Sutton Coldfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Sutton Coldfield]] constituency but lost to the Conservative [[Geoffrey Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd|Geoffrey Lloyd]] in [[1959 United Kingdom general election|1959]]. He kept hunting for prospective candidacies, applying for twenty-five seats over three years. In 1963 he was chosen as the [[prospective parliamentary candidate]] for the multi-racial [[Birmingham Sparkbrook]] constituency (following a well-known local 'character', Jack Webster) and facing a Conservative majority of just under 900. On 16 October 1964 he defeated the Conservative candidate, Michael J. Donnelly, [[1964 United Kingdom general election|and was elected]] with a majority of 1,254 votes; he was to hold the seat for the next eight general elections.

===Journalist===
At first, Hattersley was [[Parliamentary private secretary]] to [[Margaret Herbison]], the Minister for Pensions. His [[maiden speech]] was on a housing subsidies bill. Still a [[Gaitskellite]], he also joined the 1963 Club.{{clarify|date=August 2018}} He also wrote his first ''Endpiece'' column for ''[[The Spectator]]'' (the column moved to ''[[The Listener (British magazine)|The Listener]]'' in 1979, and then to ''[[The Guardian]]'').{{citation needed|date=March 2014}}

===Ministerial positions===
Despite the support of [[Roy Jenkins]] and [[Tony Crosland]] he did not gain a ministerial position until 1967, joining [[Ray Gunter]] at the Ministry of Labour. He was reportedly disliked by Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] as a "Jenkinsite". The following year he was promoted to Under Secretary in the same ministry, now led by [[Barbara Castle]], and become closely involved in implementing the unpopular [[Prices and Incomes Act 1966]]. In 1969, after the fiasco over ''[[In Place of Strife]]'', he was promoted to deputy to [[Denis Healey]], the Minister of Defence, following the death of [[Gerry Reynolds (British politician)|Gerry Reynolds]]. One of his first jobs, while Healey was hospitalised, was to sign the Army Board Order – putting troops into [[Northern Ireland]].

===European Common Market===
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The [[1970 United Kingdom general election|Labour defeat of 1970]] ended six years of Labour government. Hattersley held his seat – often increasing his majority – for the next 26 years, but he spent 21 of those years in Opposition. He was appointed Deputy Foreign Affairs Spokesman, again under Healey, which involved a lot of foreign travel. He also took a Visiting Fellowship to the [[Harvard Kennedy School]]. During this time he also became an enthusiastic supporter of the [[Common Market]], and his "drift to the political centre" put him at odds with much of the [[Parliamentary Labour Party]] (PLP).

Hattersley was one of the sixty-nine "rebels" who voted with the Conservative government in favour of entry into the EEC, which precipitated the resignation of [[Roy Jenkins#Deputy Leader of the Labour Party|Roy Jenkins]] as deputy leader (10 April 1972) and eventually a permanent split within Labour. (It was the adoption of a referendum on the EEC as shadow cabinet policy that caused Jenkins to resign.) For "standing by" the party, Hattersley was appointed [[Shadow Defence Secretary]] 1972 to 1973 and later [[Shadow Secretary of State for Education]].

===Privy Council===
In the [[Labour government, 1974–1979|Wilson government of 1974]], Hattersley was appointed the (non-cabinet) Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, and in the [[1975 New Year Honours]], he was sworn of the [[Privy Council (United Kingdom)|Privy Council]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=46444 |date=31 December 1974 |page=1 |supp=y}}</ref> Hattersley headed the British delegation to Reykjavik during the "[[Cod Wars]]", but was primarily given the task of renegotiating the terms of the UK's membership of the EEC. Following the resignation of Wilson he voted for [[James Callaghan]] in the ensuing leadership contest to stop [[Michael Foot]] (a man "[who] for all his virtues&nbsp;... could not become Prime Minister"). Under Callaghan he finally made it into the Cabinet as [[Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection]], a position he held until Labour's defeat in the [[1979 United Kingdom general election|1979 general election]].

In 1979 Hattersley was appointed to shadow [[Michael Heseltine]] as the Minister for the Environment, contending with him over the cuts in local government powers and the "[[Right to Buy]]". Following the rise of the '[[hard left]]', as demonstrated at the 1980 Labour Conference, Callaghan resigned. The leadership contest was between Healey and Foot, with Hattersley organising Healey's campaign. "An electorate [the PLP] deranged by fear" elected Foot. Healey was made deputy leader and Hattersley was appointed [[Shadow Home Secretary]], but felt that Foot was "a good man in the wrong job", "a baffling combination of the admirable and the absurd".{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}

Healey was challenged for his post in 1981, following electoral rule changes, by [[Tony Benn]], retaining his post by 50.426% to 49.574%. Hattersley felt that "the Bennite alliance [although defeated]&nbsp;... played a major part in keeping the Conservatives in power for almost twenty years". Hattersley also had very little regard for those Labour defectors who created the [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|SDP]] in 1981. He helped found Labour Solidarity (1981–83) and credits the group with preventing the disintegration of the Labour Party.{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}

===Deputy Leader===
Following Labour's devastating defeat in the [[1983 United Kingdom general election|1983 general election]] Foot declined to continue as leader. Hattersley stood in the subsequent [[1983 Labour Party leadership election (UK)|leadership election]]. [[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]] was his campaign manager and a young [[Peter Mandelson]] impressed Hattersley. The other competitors were [[Neil Kinnock]], [[Peter Shore]], and [[Eric Heffer]]. Hattersley had the support of most of the Shadow Cabinet, but the majority of the PLP, the constituency groups and the unions were in favour of Kinnock. In the final count Kinnock secured around three times as many votes as the second-place Hattersley. As was standard practice at the time, Hattersley was [[1983 Labour Party deputy leadership election|elected]] deputy leader. The combination was promoted at the time as being a "dream ticket" with Kinnock a representative of the left of the party and Hattersley of the right. Hattersley remained deputy for nine  years and also [[Shadow Chancellor]] until 1987, when he moved back to Shadow Home Affairs.<ref name="listening">{{cite news|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-6350511.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924161703/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-6350511.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 September 2015|title=Listening. (Neil Kinnock's election campaign)|date=23 January 1988|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|access-date=6 April 2015 |via=[[HighBeam Research]]}}</ref>

Kinnock and Hattersley attempted to "rehabilitate" Labour after 1983. Following the [[miners' strike of 1984–1985]] they resumed expulsions of members of the [[entryist]] [[Militant tendency|Militant]] group whose activities, organisation and politics had earlier been found to contravene the Labour Party's constitution. In [[1988 Labour Party deputy leadership election|1988]] they fought off a leadership challenge by [[Tony Benn]], [[Eric Heffer]], and [[John Prescott]]. Defeat in 1987 was expected; by 1992 it was much more even. Labour had regularly topped opinion polls since 1989 and at one stage had a lead of up to 15 points over the Conservatives, though this was cut back and more than once overhauled by the Tories following the resignation of [[Margaret Thatcher]] as prime minister to make way for [[John Major]] in November 1990. In the run-up to the 1992 election, Hattersley was present at the Labour Party [[Sheffield Rally|rally in his native Sheffield]] and backed up Kinnock with the claim that "with every day that passes, Neil looks more and more like the real tenant of number 10 Downing Street".<ref>{{cite news|last=Barnard|first=Stephanie|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/local/sheffield/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8170000/8170344.stm|title=Sheffield & South Yorkshire: Kinnock came and didn't conquer|work=BBC News|date=27 July 2009|access-date=20 May 2010}}</ref>

==Backbenches and retirement==
The [[1992 United Kingdom general election|1992 general election]] was held on 9 April 1992, but saw a fourth consecutive Labour defeat by the Conservatives. Kinnock announced his resignation as party leader on 13 April, and on the same day Hattersley announced his intention to resign from the deputy leadership of the party, with the intention of carrying on in their roles until the new leadership was elected that summer.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/13/newsid_2830000/2830895.stm|work=BBC News|title=1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns|date=13 April 1992}}</ref> Hattersley supported his friend [[John Smith (Labour Party leader)|John Smith]] in the [[1992 Labour Party leadership election|leadership contest]], which Smith won in July that year.

In June 1993, Hattersley cancelled an appearance on TV panel show ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' with very late notice, which infuriated the production staff and hosts, leading to Hattersley being replaced with a tub of [[lard]]. The programme compared Hattersley and the tub of lard, and claimed "they possessed the same qualities and were liable to give similar performances".<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine= [[The Spectator]]| title= I prefer the tub of lard| first= Leo |last=McKinstry| date= 13 September 2003| url= https://www.spectator.co.uk/2003/09/i-prefer-the-tub-of-lard/}}</ref>

In February 1994, Hattersley announced he would leave politics at the following [[1997 United Kingdom general election|general election]]. He was made a [[life peer]] as '''Baron Hattersley''', of [[Sparkbrook]] in the County of West Midlands on 24 November 1997.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=54961|date=27 November 1997|page=13331}}</ref>

Hattersley was long regarded as being on the right-wing of the party, but with [[New Labour]] in power he found himself criticising a Labour government from the left, stating that "Blair's Labour Party is not the Labour Party I joined". He mentioned repeatedly that he would be supporting [[Gordon Brown]] as leader.<ref>{{cite news|title=Labour peer urges Blair to quit|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/5183632.stm|access-date=27 September 2016|work=BBC News|date=16 July 2006}}</ref>

Hattersley retired from the [[House of Lords]] on 19 May 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-hattersley/858|title=Lord Hattersley|publisher=[[UK Parliament]]}}</ref>

==Later life==
In 1996, Hattersley was fined for an incident in which his dog [[Buster (dog)|Buster]] killed a goose in one of London's royal parks. He later wrote the "diary" of Buster, writing from the dog's perspective on the incident, in which it claimed to have acted in self-defence.<ref>{{cite book|title=Buster's Diaries as Told to Roy Hattersley With a New Postscript: Amazon.co.uk: Roy Hattersley: Books |id= {{ASIN|0751533319|country=uk}} }}</ref>

In 2003, Hattersley was elected a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows |title=Royal Society of Literature All Fellows |publisher=Royal Society of Literature |access-date=9 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305070326/http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows |archive-date=5 March 2010 }}</ref> Hattersley is the author of three novels and several biographies. He has written biographies on religious topics, and on the Edwardian period as well. His 700-page biography of [[David Lloyd George]] ''The Great Outsider: David Lloyd George'' was published by Little, Brown in 2010.<!-- ISBN needed -->

In 2008, Hattersley appeared in a documentary on the DVD for the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', to discuss the political climate that existed at the time of making the serial.

==Personal life==
Hattersley married his first wife, the educationalist [[Molly Hattersley|Molly]], in 1956. They divorced in April 2013 after 57 years of marriage, having been separated for five years.<ref>{{cite web|website=[[The Times]]|first1=Laura|last1=Pitel|title=Hattersley joins 'silver splitters' as he divorces wife of 57 years|publisher=News Corp UK & Ireland Limited|date=13 April 2013|access-date=7 August 2024|quote=Documents submitted as part of the case said the Hattersleys had been living apart for five years and that the union was irreparable. The couple married in 1956.|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/hattersley-joins-silver-splitters-as-he-divorces-wife-of-57-years-nzdwnnm0nkf}}</ref> They had no children.  In summer 2013, he married Maggie Pearlstine, his literary agent and sister of [[Norman Pearlstine]].<ref name=":0" />

Hattersley supports a [[Republicanism in the United Kingdom|British republic]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wedding fuels republican surge|quote=Republic's list of supporters includes Labour stalwarts Tony Benn and Roy Hattersley, 20 MPs, actress Honor Blackman, comedians Jo Brand and Mark Steel, journalist Julie Burchill, QCs Michael Mansfield and Geoffrey Robertson, scientist Steven Rose, gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, and writers Sue Townsend and Benjamin Zephaniah.|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|date=2 April 2005|first1=David|last1=Smith|url=http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/apr/03/monarchy.davidsmith|access-date=2021-05-05|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref> He is a dedicated supporter of [[Sheffield Wednesday]], and a member of the [[Reform Club|Reform]] and [[Garrick Club|Garrick]] clubs.<ref name=":0" />

==Bibliography==
* ''The Catholics: The Church and its people in Britain and Ireland, from the Reformation to the present day'' (2017) {{ISBN|9781784741587}}
* ''David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider'', Little Brown (2010) {{ISBN|978-1-4087-0097-6}}
* {{cite book |title=Borrowed time: the story of Britain between the wars |date=2010 |publisher=Abacus |location=London |isbn=9780349118949}}
* ''In Search Of England'', Hachette (2009) {{ISBN| 9780748118168}}
* ''Buster's Secret Diaries'' (2007) {{ISBN|978-0-297-85216-2}}
* ''Campbell-Bannerman'' (2006) {{ISBN|978-1-9049-5056-1}}
* ''The Edwardians: Biography of the Edwardian Age'' (2004) {{ISBN|0-316-72537-4}}
* ''A Brand from the Burning: The Life of John Wesley'' (2002) {{ISBN|978-0-316-86020-8}}
* ''Buster's Diaries'' (1999) {{ISBN|0-7515-2917-6}}
* ''Blood and Fire: William and Catherine Booth and the Salvation Army'' (1999) {{ISBN|0-316-85161-2}}
* ''50 Years on: Prejudiced History of Britain Since the War'' (1997) {{ISBN|0-316-87932-0}}
* ''No Discouragement: An Autobiography'' (1996) {{ISBN|0-333-64957-5}}
* ''Who Goes Home?: Scenes from a Political Life'' (1995) {{ISBN|0-316-87669-0}}
* ''Between Ourselves'' (1994) {{ISBN|0-330-32574-4}}
* ''Skylark's Song'' (1993) {{ISBN|0-333-55608-9}}
* ''In That Quiet Earth'' (1993) {{ISBN|0-330-32303-2}}
* ''The Maker's Mark'' (1990) {{ISBN|0-333-47032-X}}
* ''Choose Freedom: Future of Democratic Socialism'' (1987) {{ISBN|0-14-010494-1}}
* ''A Yorkshire Boyhood'' (1983) {{ISBN|0-7011-2613-2}}
* with [[Eric Heffer]], [[Neil Kinnock]] and [[Peter Shore]] ''Labour's Choices'' (1983)
* ''Press Gang'' (1983) {{ISBN|0-86051-205-3}}
* ''Goodbye to Yorkshire'' (1976) {{ISBN|0-575-02201-9}}
*  ''The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation'', Random House (2013) {{ISBN|978-0-099-55439-4}}

==References==
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==External links==
{{Wikiquote}}
* {{hansard-contribs | mr-roy-hattersley | Roy Hattersley }}
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* [http://www.busterhattersley.com/ Buster's Diaries] official site
* [https://www.theguardian.com/Columnists/Archive/0,5673,-44,00.html ''Guardian'' columns by Roy Hattersley]
* [http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/roy_hattersley New Statesman articles by Roy Hattersley]
* Roy Hattersley, ''[[New Statesman]]'', 10 May 2004, [https://web.archive.org/web/20041209015514/http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4687_133/ai_n6152909 'We should have made it clear that we too were modernisers']
* Roy Hattersley and Kevin Hickson ''[[Political Quarterly]]'', 8 September 2011,[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2011.02259.x/abstract In Praise of Social Democracy]

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