Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM PCwas a British Labour Party politician, and biographer of British political leaders...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 November 1920
party labour-party has-beens
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life
party ideas might
There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive
believe moving party
The most moving speech I have ever heard was Hugh Gaitskell saying he would 'fight, fight and fight again to save the party we love. That was the right message in 1960, and I believe it is still the right message today.
party together splits
The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered
party class roots
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect
heath mr thinks
I am sure Mr Heath thinks he is honest but I wish he didn't have to have his friends say it so often.
bad britain centre country economic frozen health left mould political politics within
The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?
country believe broken
I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?
income essentials ownership
A substantial extension of public ownership is an essential pre-requisite of greater equality of earned income
dirty phrases civilised-society
The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society
government peaceful revolution
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected
fabric favour social
Many of the early nationalisation measures were right. They have remained part of the social fabric. I favour measures of that type.
thinking choices democracy
I do not think you can push public expenditure significantly above 60 per cent and maintain the values of a plural society with adequate freedom of choice. We are here close to one of the frontiers of social democracy
facts wilson persons
The fact is that Harold Wilson is a person no one can like, a person without friends.