Former deputy leader of the Labour Party who helped prevent the party splitting in the 1980s, paving the foundation for the 1997 GE victory.
On leaving the HoC, he entered the Lords and became a writer and journalist, publishing a variety of books which included 'Buster's Diaries', a memoir written from the perspective of his dog.
Ye Gods, I can remember when he was one half of "The Dream Ticket", a partnership as formidable and attractive to the electorate as Ted Hankey and his giveaway plastic bats
Thank Allah no-one has mentioned tubs of lard.
RIP
Ye Gods, I can remember when he was one half of "The Dream Ticket", a partnership as formidable and attractive to the electorate as Ted Hankey and his giveaway plastic batsThank Allah no-one has mentioned tubs of lard. RIP