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  • Jun 15, 2026, 6:41 PM

    RIP Roy Hattersley, one of the greats from the days when even being on the right of the Labour party meant still being to the left of everyone else. A great detail from his Wikipedia page:

    His father [Frederick Roy Hattersley], at various times a police officer, clerk at Sheffield town hall, and chairman of the council's Health Committee was a former Roman Catholic priest who renounced the church and left the priesthood to cohabit with Hattersley's mother, Enid, a married woman at whose wedding he had officiated two weeks earlier; Frederick ultimately died an atheist.

    Enid Hattersley was very prominent in Sheffield council and had her own obit in the Guardian: theguardian.com/news/2001/may/

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