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Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, OM, PC (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British politician and writer who served as the sixth president of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981.
Roy Jenkins was a British politician, a strong supporter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Community. Formerly a Labourite, he was the first leader of the Social Democratic Party (1982–83) and later was leader of the Social and Liberal Democratic Peers (1988–98).
Jan 5, 2003 · Roy Jenkins was a civilised, liberal, decent politician, for those who liked him. For harsher critics he was a snob who had betrayed his party and his working-class roots. He had set out...
Jan 6, 2003 · Roy Jenkins, a Welsh miner's son who became a Socialist cabinet minister and president of the European Commission in Brussels and then tried to break the mold of...
Mar 26, 2014 · The broken legacy of Roy Jenkins. He was the most successful chancellor since the 1940s and the most radical home secretary since WW1, responsible for the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the SDP. Yet a decade after his death, his social-liberal world-view is in crisis.
Sep 24, 2004 · Jenkins was author or sponsor of most of the liberalising legislation that broke decisively the power of the state over the nation’s social mores. This revolution has proved...
Mar 20, 2014 · Of all the not-quite British prime ministers since the second world war – from Rab Butler to Ken Clarke – perhaps no near-miss is regretted more widely than that of Roy Jenkins, a man of...
Feb 23, 2018 · As home secretary in the Labour government of the mid-1960s, Roy Jenkins oversaw some of the great social reforms of the 20th Century, including abortion rights, divorce, and the...
Sep 25, 2023 · Political interviewer Michael Cockerell introduces his acclaimed profile of Roy Jenkins, the man who, as home secretary in the 1960s, helped transform British society by changing laws on ...
BIOGRAPHY. Member of the House of Lords. Chancellor of Oxford University. Former deputy leader of the Labour Party and president of the European Commission. Co-founder of the Social Democratic Party. Author of Truman, Baldwin, and others. Primary Contributions (1)
