Roy Hattersley never held high Cabinet rank, nor did he come close to leading Labour, the party he served in Parliament for more than 50 years. He had neither charisma nor oratorical brilliance.
Yet he could claim to be one of the most influential British politicians of the late 20th century.
In the 1980s, at the hour of Labour’s darkest crisis since its foundation, when the advance of the hard Left was tearing the movement apart and driving many moderates into the arms of the newly formed Social Democratic Party (SDP) led by the elegant pro-European Roy Jenkins, Hattersley bravely resolved to take
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