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Lord Hattersley pictured astatine the 1985 Labour Party Conference
Lord Roy Hattersley, who served arsenic lawman person of the Labour Party nether Neil Kinnock, has died astatine the property of 93.
The Sheffield-born person entered parliament successful 1964 arsenic the MP for Birmingham Sparkbrook, a station helium held for much than 3 decades.
He was the party's lawman person successful absorption for 9 years pursuing aft its historical decision to Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives successful 1983.
Deputy Labour person Lucy Powell said Lord Hattersley had "shaped the Labour Party and British politics".
"He was a elephantine of our question and of that procreation of politicians."
She said helium had been "kind, thoughtful and afloat of dependable advice".
New Labour strategist Alistair Campbell described him arsenic "Labour done and through" and "a loyal and hard moving lawman to Neil astatine a captious clip successful Labour history".
He was made a beingness adjacent arsenic Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook aft leaving the Commons successful 1997.
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