Roy Hattersley
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The Right Honourable The Lord Hattersley PC FRSL |
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| Deputy Leader of the Labour Party | |
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In office 2 October 1983 – 18 July 1992 |
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| Leader | Neil Kinnock |
| Preceded by | Denis Healey |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Beckett |
| Shadow Home Secretary | |
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In office 13 July 1987 – 25 July 1992 |
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| Leader | Neil Kinnock |
| Preceded by | Gerald Kaufman |
| Succeeded by | Tony Blair |
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In office 4 November 1980 – 31 October 1983 |
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| Leader | Michael Foot |
| Preceded by | Merlyn Rees |
| Succeeded by | Gerald Kaufman |
| Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | |
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In office 31 October 1983 – 18 July 1987 |
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| Leader | Neil Kinnock |
| Preceded by | Peter Shore |
| Succeeded by | John Smith |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Environment | |
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In office 14 July 1979 – 4 November 1980 |
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| Leader | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Michael Heseltine |
| Succeeded by | Gerald Kaufman |
| Secretary of State for Prices and Consumer Protection | |
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In office 10 September 1976 – 4 May 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | James Callaghan |
| Preceded by | Shirley Williams |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
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In office 7 March 1974 – 10 September 1976 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Succeeded by | David Owen |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science | |
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In office 4 May 1973 – 5 March 1974 |
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| Leader | Harold Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Norman St John-Stevas |
| Minister of Defence for Administration | |
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In office 15 July 1969 – 19 June 1970 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Gerry Reynolds |
| Succeeded by | Robert Lindsay |
| Under-Secretary of State for Employment | |
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In office 6 April 1968 – 15 July 1969 |
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| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
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Member of Parliament for Birmingham Sparkbrook |
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In office 15 October 1964 – 1 May 1997 |
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| Preceded by | Leslie Seymour |
| Succeeded by | Constituency Abolished |
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Roy Sydney George Hattersley 28 December 1932 Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Molly (1956-2013;divorced) Maggie Pearlstine (m. 2013) |
| Alma mater | University of Hull |
| Profession | Journalist |
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.
Hattersley was born on 28 December 1932 in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, to Enid Brackenbury and Frederick Hattersley, who married in the 1950s. 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, was a former Roman Catholic priest, who renounced the church and left the priesthood to marry; he died (in 1973) an atheist.
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 won a scholarship to Sheffield City Grammar School and went from there to study at the University of Hull. Having been accepted to read English at the University of Leeds, he was diverted into reading Economics 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.
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