What is Roy Hattersley?
[[File:Roy_Hattersley_2012_cropped_2.jpg|right|200px]] '''Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley''', [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]], [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]] (born 28 December 1932) is a British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[politician]], [[author]] and [[journalist]]. He was born in [[Sheffield]], [[England]]. He was MP for [[Birmingham, Sparkbrook (UK Parliament constituency)|Birmingham Sparkbrook]] for 33 years from 1964 to 1997. He was [[Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK)|Deputy Leader of the Labour Party]] from 1983 to 1992 during the [[Neil Kinnock]] leadership.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/13/newsid_2830000/2830895.stm|work=BBC News|title=1992: Labour's Neil Kinnock resigns|date=13 April 1992}}</ref> Hattersley retired from the [[House of Lords]] on 19 May 2017.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/lord-hattersley/858|title=Lord Hattersley|publisher=[[Parliament of the United Kingdom|UK Parliament]]}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hattersley, Roy}} [[Category:1932 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:English journalists]] [[Category:UK MPs 1964–1966]] [[Category:UK MPs 1966–1970]] [[Category:UK MPs 1970–1974]] [[Category:UK MPs 1974]] [[Category:UK MPs 1974–1979]] [[Category:UK MPs 1979–1983]] [[Category:UK MPs 1983–1987]] [[Category:UK MPs 1987–1992]] [[Category:UK MPs 1992–1997]] [[Category:Labour Party (UK) MPs]] [[Category:Politicians from Sheffield]] [[Category:Writers from Sheffield]] {{bio-stub}}