The three Roy Jenkins
From Solidarity 3/21, 11 January 2003 By John Chamberlin There were three of Roy Jenkins, at least. The first Roy Jenkins was the son of a South Wales mining union official who moved out of his class up a ladder of labour movement positions. Jenkins senior became an MP, and then Parliamentary Private Secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Roy, his son, went to Oxford and became a fully paid-up bourgeois. The second Roy Jenkins was the reforming Home Secretary of the mid 1960s. That Jenkins facilitated Private Member's Bills that revolutionised the law on homosexuality and abortion. The...