Roy Hattersley

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Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley, PC, FRSL (born 28 December 1932) is a British Labour politician, author and journalist from Sheffield. He was MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook for 33 years from 1964 to 1997. He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.


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  • Aug.27.2018: Roy Hattersley urges Corbyn to intervene in Labour deselection row. senior Labour politician and former deputy leader Roy Hattersley has written to Jeremy Corbyn asking him to intervene to stop one of his most loyal supporters campaigning for the deselection of centrist MPs, saying such tactics risked leading to a repeat of the party split of the 1980s. Hattersley, who was in the Commons for 33 years and Labour’s deputy leader for nine , said in his letter to Corbyn that the efforts by Chris Williamson, the MP for Derby North, would alienate floating voters and risked causing a split in the party. Hattersley said he attended one of the Democracy Roadshow events last week in the South Yorkshire constituency of Penistone and Stocksbridge, where the local MP is Angela Smith, a regular critic of Corbyn. Hattersley, who has condemned Corbyn in the past [link), said Williamson’s speech had an emphasis on mandatory reselection for MPs. He wrote: “I do not question the right of a constituency Labour party to replace a sitting member with a new candidate. What is intolerable is a campaign to promote indiscriminate reselection which is organised from outside the constituency, supported by new recruits who have been briefly enrolled for that purpose and is intended to benefit candidates of a particular point of view.” Hattersley, who was made a peer in 1997, continued: “A reselection campaign, whatever its outcome, will alienate floating voters whose support we need. Were it to have any success, the consequences would be catastrophic. He said: “Faced with the most incompetent government this century, it should be 20 points ahead on the opinion polls. But because of a combination of its own incompetence and its enthusiasm for ideological claptrap, it is squandering its chance of winning the next election. It has to change or it will become a political irrelevance.” Peter Walker, The Guardian.