Roy Jenkins

European Diary 1977-1981 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This diary provides the background to two vital issues of today: our relations with the European Community and the state of politics in Britain. Few people are better qualified to know how we arrived where we are than Roy Jenkins. During the period of this diary he was President of the European Commission. Previously he had been Home Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer and deputy leader of the Labour Party. Subsequently he was founder and first leader of the SDP, and he is now Chancellor of Oxford University, leader of the Democrats in the House of Lords and President of the Royal Society of Literature. Not the least of his qualifications is that he is also a distinguished historian and biographer.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 734
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448201976
• Artikelnr.: 38312478

Autorenporträt

Elected to Parliament as a Labour member in 1948, Roy Jenkins (B: 1920) served in several major posts in Harold Wilson's First Government and as Home Secretary from 1965-1967. In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latter's death, a position he held until his own death in 2003. Jenkins grew to political maturity during the twilight of a great age of British parliamentary democracy. As much as Churchill, though in quite a different way, Jenkins was from the cradle a creature of the system that nurtured Palmerston and Disraeli, Gladstone, Asquith and Lloyd George.