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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...
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    1979 Dimbleby Lecture given by Roy Jenkins as he neared the end of his presidency of the European Commission. Jenkins argued the necessity for a realignment...
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  • Commission on the Voting System, popularly known as the Jenkins Commission after its chairman Roy Jenkins, was a commission into possible reform of the United...
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  • Willie Roy Jenkins (born July 30, 1953) is an American murderer, rapist and suspected serial killer who was linked via DNA to a 1975 rape-murder committed...
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    final examinations, and a series of major academic awards. Biographer Roy Jenkins wrote: Academically his results put him among prime ministers in the...
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    fall and suffered a net loss of one seat as well as former SDP leader Roy Jenkins losing his seat to Labour. This led to the two parties merging completely...
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    and then to The Guardian).[citation needed] Despite the support of Roy Jenkins and Tony Crosland he did not gain a ministerial position until 1967,...
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    increasing political opposition forced Wilson to accept it. Wilson then moved Roy Jenkins, the home secretary, to be chancellor; Callaghan became the new home...
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    162 Jenkins 2001, p. 670. Jenkins 2001, pp. 677–678. Jenkins 2001, p. 674. Jenkins 2001, p. 679. Jenkins 2001, p. 682. Jenkins 2001, p. 680. Jenkins 2001...
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    divisions within the party. During 1981, a group of senior figures including Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams left Labour to found the...
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    the party's Junior Defence Spokesman until 1972 when he resigned with Roy Jenkins over Labour's opposition to the European Community. On Labour's return...
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    Chancellor was called upon the death of the incumbent Chancellor, Roy Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, on 5 January 2003. The electorate consisted of all...
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    was supported in public by two younger MPs later to be staunch allies, Roy Jenkins and Anthony Crosland. After the budget Tony Benn, who was on the right...
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    Grimsby, which he would represent for the rest of his life. He was, like Roy Jenkins and Denis Healey, a friend and protégé of Hugh Gaitskell, and together...
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    returned to Parliament in 1981 when he saw off a strong challenge from Roy Jenkins in a traditionally safe Labour seat. This was a notable by-election in...
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  • player Roy Lee Jackson (born 1954), American former Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Douglas Jayetileke, Sri Lankan Sinhala army officer Roy Jenkins (1920–2003)...
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    Secretary. Healey was appointed Shadow Chancellor in April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned in a row over the European Economic Community (Common Market)...
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  • appointments caused lasting damage to his reputation; former home secretary Roy Jenkins said that Wilson's retirement "was disfigured by his, at best, eccentric...
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  • Liberal Democrat) politician Roy Jenkins. Jenkins was born at Varteg, near Abersychan in Monmouthshire to Thomas Jenkins and his wife, Eliza Perry. He...
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    secured the Community's own financial resources, and in 1977, President Roy Jenkins became the first Commission president to attend a G7 summit on behalf...
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    by: University of Northern Iowa JSTOR 25105753 Roy Jenkins, The Chancellors (1998), pp. 11–12. Jenkins, The Chancellors (1998) p. 36. Beach, Lady Victoria...
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    1981, four senior politicians on the right-wing of the Labour Party (Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen and William Rodgers, the so-called "Gang...
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    resigned her membership to form – along with fellow Labour resignees Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers – the Social Democratic Party (SDP). They...
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    Dictionary of National Biography entry for Harold Wilson, written by Roy Jenkins, Mary was not satisfied with life in politics. It was this detachment...
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    successor as Chancellor, Roy Jenkins, considering him vain and arrogant). As Shadow Chancellor he concentrated on tax reform. Jenkins, Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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    Cabinet voted to support a referendum on 29 March 1972, and as a result Roy Jenkins resigned as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. In the Labour Government...
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    external representation of the Community took a step forward when President Roy Jenkins, recruited to the presidency in January 1977 from his role as Home Secretary...
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    the "Gang of Four" – Shirley Williams, Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers. Of the four, Williams and Jenkins lacked Parliamentary seats, and were...
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  • 'gay relationship': the secret life of Roy Jenkins, the best PM Britain never had". walesonline. "Roy Jenkins' male lover Tony Crosland tried to halt...
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    Glasgow Hillhead gaining the seat for Labour from the SDP defeating Roy Jenkins with a majority of 3,251 votes. Although known for his left-wing political...
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