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Roy Hattersley

July 2022

  • Sam Tarry MP (second left) on an Aslef picket line on Saturday.

    Labour party is ‘sticking two fingers up’ at working people, says Unite boss

    Head of party’s biggest union donor warns members feel ‘crushed’ and may vote not to pay millions to Starmer

February 2021

  • Keir Starmer

    Observer letters
    Letters: It is vital that Labour fights for equality

    The party must be in a postion to offer solutions to Britain’s social and economic challenges

May 2019

  • UK Daily Politics 2019<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 14: Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg leaves his home on February 14, 2019 in London, England. MPs are set to debate and vote on the next steps in the Brexit process later today as Prime Mimister Theresa May continues to try to get her deal through Parliament. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

    ‘Historians’ like Jacob Rees-Mogg only have one character in mind: themselves

    Sam Leith
    How many more politician ‘authors’ will mangle history to flatter their own careers? asks Sam Leith, literary editor of the Spectator

January 2019

  • Roy Hattersley.

    Roy Hattersley backs second Brexit vote to 'enfranchise the young'

    Veteran politician’s support seen as significant intervention in People’s Vote campaign

August 2018

  • Roy Hattersley

    Roy Hattersley urges Corbyn to intervene in Labour deselection row

    Former deputy leader says party risks ‘catastrophic’ split if it repeats mistakes of 1980s

December 2017

  • Campaigner wears Momentum T-shirt

    Labour faces subversion by Momentum and far left, says Roy Hattersley

    Veteran grandee’s warning comes as row splits party over dropping and reinstatement of leftwing candidate for Watford byelection

April 2017

  • Roy Hattersley, the former Labour deputy leader, says Corbyn’s policies are ‘doomed to failure’

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    General election 2017: former Labour deputy leader says Corbyn's policies 'doomed to failure' – as it happened

    Prime minister campaigns in Wales while Keir Starmer announces Labour will guarantee the rights of EU citizens living in the UK

March 2017

  • A Catholic priest celebrates holy communion.

    The Catholics by Roy Hattersley review – the unholy hounding of Britain’s rebel ‘papists’

    The Labour peer brings a touch of personal history to this elegant and dramatic account of an overlooked chapter in British Catholicism

September 2015

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    Roy Hattersley couldn’t be more wrong about Jeremy Corbyn

    Letters: I have always had the greatest respect for Roy Hattersley. But his tirade against Jeremy Corbyn does neither his reputation nor the Labour party any good

February 2015

  • Arthur Miller at home in New York.

    From the Guardian archive
    Theatre archive: Roy Hattersley meets Arthur Miller – a view from the barricades

    In an interview first published on 24 October 1998, Roy Hattersley found the 83-year-old Arthur Miller relaxed and cheerful – except when talking about his former wife, Marilyn Monroe

November 2014

  • Ed Miliband Greenslade piece.

    Ed Miliband: genuine crisis or monstering campaign?

    The Labour leader is facing a deluge of criticism in the British press – treatment that has been dished out to almost every predecessor from Clement Attlee to Neil Kinnock. With an election six months away, and the rightwing papers scenting blood, just how nasty could things get?

August 2014

  • William Keegan

    William Keegan's in my view
    With Old Labour, we might have had a better New Britain

    William Keegan
  • Roger Law with Major And Thatcher puppets

    Spitting Image - in pictures

July 2013

  • Simon Hoggart

    Simon Hoggart's week: The gurning Salmond's 'photo-bombing' was a dud

    Simon Hoggart
    It took the MoD's infuriating warning about Faslane to undo the damage of the Scottish first minister's stunt at Wimbledon

May 2013

  • Aerial view of Chatworth House

    The Devonshires by Roy Hattersley – review

    A pacy study of the Devonshire dynasty and its steely determination to survive says nothing new, but makes a rollicking read nonetheless, writes Lucy Lethbridge
  • Alan Johnson's wedding in 1968.

    Critical eye
    Book reviews roundup: This Boy, Grace and Mary, and The Devonshires

    What the critics thought of This Boy by Alan Johnson, Grace and Mary by Melvyn Bragg and The Devonshires by Roy Hattersley
  • South Shields by-election

    Politics should be guided by principle, not populism

    Roy Hattersley
    Roy Hattersley: Labour ought to resist 'the people', as heard through the Ukip megaphone. Convictions are popular too, as Thatcher showed

February 2013

  • Harold Wilson, 1963

    Roy Hattersley: Why I was wrong about Harold Wilson

    When Wilson was elected Labour leader 50 years ago, many MPs thought him a politician without principle. Now it's possible to see things differently

February 2012

  • David Miliband

    David Miliband targets Kinnock in attack on 'Reassurance Labour'

    In a New Statesman article, David Miliband launches a scathing attack on the political views of Neil Kinnock and Roy Hattersley, who backed his brother's leadership bid

October 2010

  • Critical eye
    Critical eye: book reviews roundup

    David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider by Roy Hattersley, The Small Hand by Susan Hill and MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909-1949 by Keith Jeffery
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