Roy Hattersley

Roy Hattersley is a politician-turned-writer. He was elected to the British Parliament in 1964, serving in each of Harold Wilson’s governments and in Jim Callaghan’s cabinet. In 1983 he became deputy leader of the Labour Party. He is the author of fourteen books, including Who Goes Home?, Fifty Years On, and A Yorkshire Boyhood. He has written “Endpiece,” his Guardian column, for sixteen years, was the television critic for the Daily Express, and has contributed to other London-based periodicals, including the Daily Mail, The Observer, and The Times.