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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).
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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...
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...
Mar 26, 2014 · A biography of Roy Jenkins, the most successful chancellor and radical home secretary of the 20th century, and the founder of the SDP. The review questions the legacy of his social-liberal world-view in the face of the current political and economic crises.
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...
Learn about Roy Jenkins, a British politician, author and journalist who was a radical home secretary, chancellor of the exchequer and president of the European Commission. He was also a socialite, a biographer of Gladstone and a Whitbread Prize winner.
