Roy Hattersley: Labour politician who helped start the party's modernisation
Able Labour politician, often at odds with his party, who became a successful author and columnist.
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Roy Hattersley: Labour politician who helped start the party's modernisation43 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleSam WoodhouseGetty ImagesRoy Hattersley, who has died at the age of 93, was one of Labour's cleverest and most articulate post war politicians.But he was fated to spend more than two-thirds of his career in opposition, and only briefly achieved cabinet rank.A moderniser before the term was invented, he vigorously opposed Labour's shift to the left after Margaret Thatcher's victory in 1979.As Neil Kinnock's deputy leader in the 1980s, he encouraged his party to embrace multilateral disarmament, the market economy and the European Union.As a result, they saw off the challenge of the SDP and laid the foundations for New Labour which, eventually, resulted in the 1997…
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