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10. Jenkins, European Diary, pp.616–17 (11.7.80)
11. The Times, 12.2.09
12. Bill Rodgers to Jenkins, 27.11.90 [Jenkins papers]
13. Unpublished diary, 19.2.79
14. Bill Rodgers, 8.11.79, in The Hugo Young Papers, pp.134–5
15. Speech in Abertillery, 30.11.79 [The Times, 1.12.79]
16. Jenkins, European Diary, 1.12.79
17. Bill Rodgers to Jenkins, 3.1.80 [Jenkins papers]; also in Ivor Crewe & Anthony King, SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party, pp.66–8
18. Giles Radice, Diaries, 1980–2001, p.6 (9.1.80)
19. Unpublished diary, 19.3.80
20. ibid.
21. Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre [ALATC], pp.523–4
22. Unpublished diary, 24.7.80
23. ibid., 3.1.80
24. ibid., 7.4.80
25. John Grigg to Jenkins, 23.11.79 [Jenkins papers]
26. Unpublished diary, 26.9.80
27. Jenkins, European Diary, p.609 (9.6.80)
28. Speech to the Parliamentary Press Gallery, 9.6.80 [The Times, 10.6.80]
29. The Times, 9.6.80
30. Jenkins, European Diary, pp.608–9 (8.6.80)
31. The Times, 10.6.80
32. The Economist, 14.6.80
33. Spectator, 14.6.80
34. ibid., 21.6.80
35. Bernard Donoughue, 3.9.80, in The Hugo Young Papers, pp.154–5
36. Jenkins, European Diary, p.549
37. Guardian, 1.8.80
38. Jenkins, European Diary, pp.625–6 (31.8.80)
39. Unpublished diary, 29.9.80
40. ibid., 5.10.80
41. The Times, 15.10.80
42. Jenkins, European Diary, p.637 (13.10.80)
43. Bill Rodgers to Jenkins, 3.1.80 [Jenkins papers]
44. Peter Jenkins, Mrs Thatcher’s Revolution, p.144
45. Unpublished diary, 5.10.80
46. ibid., 19.10.80
47. Jenkins, European Diary, p.643 (4.11.80)
48. ibid., 10.11.80
49. David Owen, Time to Declare, p.458
50. ibid., p.466
51. ibid., pp.483–4
52. Bill Rodgers, Fourth Among Equals, p.208
53. Bill Rodgers, 14.7.87, quoted in Patricia Lee Sykes, Losing from the Inside: The Cost of Conflict in the British Social Democratic Party, p.111
54. Rodgers, p.201
55. Owen, pp.469–70
56. David Owen, 29.6.84, quoted in Sykes, p.111
57. Unpublished diary, 29.11.80
58. ibid., 19.10.80
59. Owen, p.476
60. ibid.
61. Bill Rodgers to Jenkins, 27.11.90 [thanks to Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank]
62. Jenkins, ALATC, p.535
63. Owen, pp.481–3
64. The Times, 26.1.81; reprinted in Roy Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, p.28
65. Guardian, 2.2.81, reprinted in Ian Bradley, Breaking the Mould: The Birth and Prospects of the Social Democratic Party, p.96
66. Jenkins, European Diary, p.658
67. Rodgers, p.210
68. Spectator, 31.1.81
69. Guardian, 5.2.81
70. Jenkins, ALATC, p.544n.; Sunday Times, n.d. 1981, reprinted in John Mortimer, In Character, pp.142–8
71. Crewe & King, p.107
72. Interviewed by David Butler,11.6.83 [David Butler papers]
73. Bill Rodgers, ‘SDP’, in Andrew Adonis & Keith Thomas, Roy Jenkins: A Retrospective, p.217
74. The Times, 31.1.81, in Martin Westlake, Kinnock: The Biography, p.173
75. Guardian, 17.2.81, in ibid.
76. Westlake, p.173
77. SDP steering committee minutes, 9.2.81
78. Jenkins to Lord Plowden, 27.2.81 [Plowden papers PLDN 2/3/12]
79. Roy Jenkins, Mr Attlee, p.53
80. Mike Thomas to Bill Rodgers, 2.2.81 [Rodgers papers, Box 40]
81. SDP steering committee minutes, 9.3.81, 16.3.81
82. Lord Diamond to Jenkins, 19.3.81 [Jenkins papers]
83. Roy Jenkins, 19.6.84, in Sykes, p.112
84. The Times, 24.2.81, reprinted in Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, pp.71–7
85. The Times, 18.3.81
86. ibid., 10.3.81, and Jenkins papers
87. Sun, 24.3.81
88. The Hugo Young Papers, pp.161–2 (20.3.81)
89. Harold Evans, Good Times, Bad Times, pp.218–19
90. Peter Shore, speech to Labour Solidarity at Labour’s Northern Regional Conference, Tynemouth, 23.3.81 [Shore papers, 13/69]
91. The Times, 27.3.81
92. Bradley, p.142
93. Guardian, 27.3.81
94. Bradley, p.108
95. Shore papers, 13/69
96. Crew & King, p.276
97. Bill Rodgers, 8.11.79, in The Hugo Young Papers, pp.134–5
98. Shirley Williams, Climbing the Bookshelves, pp.329–30
99. Speech at the National Liberal Club, 31.3.81, reprinted in Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, pp.31–2
100. Owen, pp.744–5
101. Owen to Jenkins, Williams and Rodgers, 23.3.81, in Owen, p.507
102. SDP steering committee minutes, 30.3.81
103. Bradley, p.90
104. Owen, pp.518–19
105. Williams, pp.286–7; Rodgers, pp.219–20
106. Owen, p.508
107. SDP steering committee minutes, 7.4.81
108. Sykes, p.113
109. Owen, p.519
110. Hugh Stephenson, Claret and Chips: The Rise of the SDP, p.77
111. Rodgers papers, Box 27
112. Jenkins, ALATC, p.539
113. Robert Maclennan papers, Box 9
114. Williams, p.288
115. Shirley Williams interviewed for The Seventies [LSE 004/9]
116. Williams, pp.288–9
117. Rodgers, p.216
118. Rodgers to Jenkins, 27.11.90 [Jenkins papers]
119. Owen, p.520
120. The Economist, 11.7.81
121. Jenkins, ALATC, p.540
122. Lord Diamond to Jenkins, 8.6.81 [Jenkins papers]
123. Peter Jenkins to Jenkins, 8.6.81 [Jenkins papers]
124. Moira Gallagher to David Steel, 14.6.81 [Rodgers papers, Box 27]
125. Evening Standard, n.d.
126. Warrington adoption speech, 17.6.81, reprinted in Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, p.51
127. John Holmes note, 17.6.81 [Maclennan papers, Box 9]
128. Jenkins, ALATC, p.540
129. Mortimer, p.148
130. Alec McGivan papers
131. The Times, 30.6.81
132. ibid., 6.7.81
133. The Economist, 25.7.81
134. Speech at Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, 18.6.81
135. Warrington election literature [Jenkins papers]
136. Speech in Warrington, 10.7.81
137. The Times, 30.6.81
138. Peter Shore, speeches at Ely, 13.6.81, and Warrington, 7.7.81 [Shore papers, 13/69]
139. The Times, 15.7.81
140. Mike Thomas memo, n.d. [Rodgers papers, Box 33]
141. The Times, 17.7.81
142. Jenkins, ALATC, p.544
143. John Grigg to Jenkins, 17.7.81 [Jenkins papers]
144. Rev J.O. Colling to Jenkins, 22.7.81 [Jenkins papers]
145. The Times, 17.7.81; Sun, 17.7.81
146. Guardian, 18.7.81
147. Speech at the Oxford Union, 16.11.81 [The Times, 17.11.81]
148. Radice, p.49 (1.8.81)
149. The Times, 10.10.81
150. Owen, p.521
151. Jenkins, ALATC, p.543
152. David Steel, Against Goliath, p.226
153. Speech at Llandudno, 15.9.81, reprinted in Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, pp.33–4
154. Jenkins, ALATC, p.547
155. Steel, p.227
156. Laura Grimond to Jenkins, 2.8.81 [Jenkins papers]
157. Ken Lomas to Bill Rodge
rs, 22.6.81; Rodgers to Lomas, 25.6.81 [Rodgers papers, Box 40]
158. The Times, 10.10.81, reprinted in Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, pp.78–82
159. Anthony Lester to Jenkins, n.d. 10.81 [Jenkins papers]
160. Crewe & King, p.144
Chapter Twenty-One: ‘Prime Minister Designate’
1. Bill Rodgers, Fourth Among Equals, p.219
2. Draft of speech to SDP constitutional convention, Kensington Town Hall, 14.2.82 [Jenkins papers]
3. House of Commons, 10.2.82
4. Interview, Lord Steel of Aikwood, 2.2.10
5. Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre [ALATC], p.556
6. Rodgers, p.226
7. Jenkins, ALATC, p.559
8. Roy Jenkins, Twelve Cities, p.192
9. Unpublished diary, 5.4.79
10. Bob Maclennan to Jenkins, 11.4.82 [Jenkins papers]
11. Jenkins, ALATC, p.560
12. Brodie to Jenkins, 12.8.02, Jenkins to Brodie, 20.8.02 [Jenkins papers]
13. Jenkins to Edward Lyons, 22.1.82 [Jenkins papers]
14. Jenkins to William Wells, 22.1.82 [Jenkins papers]
15. Hillhead adoption speech, 14.1.82, reprinted in Roy Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, pp.56–8
16. Jenkins, ALATC, p.561
17. David Steel, 25.3.82, in The Hugo Young Papers, pp.178–80
18. Speech to Scottish Council for Educational Technology, 10.3.82, reprinted in Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, pp.154–60
19. Speech to the Indian Association of Strathclyde, 31.1.82 [Jenkins papers]
20. Speech to Hillhead businessmen, 22.2.82 [Jenkins papers]
21. Hillhead election leaflets [Jenkins papers]
22. Interview, Dr Christopher Mason, 22.8.08
23. John Campbell, Roy Jenkins: A Biography (1983), p.217n.
24. Alex McGivan papers
25. Personal recollection
26. Jenkins, ALATC, p.563
27. The Times, 26.3.82
28. The Times, 26.3.82. The unpublished ‘Roy loses’ is in the British cartoon archive at the University of Kent.
29. Daily Mail, 26.3.82; The Times, 26.3.82
30. Jenkins, ALATC, p.564
31. ibid., p.571
32. Jenkins, Twelve Cities, pp.193, 199, 210–11
33. Speech at Glasgow Academy Prizegiving, 29.6.89 [Jenkins papers]
34. Lecture to the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, April 1990, reprinted in Roy Jenkins, Portraits and Miniatures, pp.153–64
35. Jenkins, Twelve Cities, p.194
36. ibid., p.199
37. Ella and Ethel Goodall to the author, 31.7.08
38. Jenkins papers
39. Barley Alison to Jenkins, n.d. [Jenkins papers]
40. Vernon Bogdanor to Jenkins, n.d. [Jenkins papers]
41. Shirley Williams speech in Waltham Forest, 30.1.82 [The Times, 31.3.82]
42. SDP steering committee minutes, 5.4.82
43. House of Commons, 31.3.82 [Vol.21, cols 310–11]
44. Alan Clark, Into Politics, p.310 (31.3.82)
45. Reference mislaid
46. House of Commons, 11.5.82 [Vol.23, cols 614–18]
47. Professor Peter Clarke
48. Rodgers, p.229
49. House of Commons, 20.4.82 [Vol.22, cols 121–2]; The Times, 21.4.82
50. Speech notes [Jenkins papers]
51. Speech in Hillhead, 14.5.82 [Jenkins papers]
52. Speech at Burnham Grammar School, 17.5.82 [Jenkins papers]
53. The Times, 4.6.82
54. SDP communications committee minutes, 25.5.82
55. SDP steering committee minutes, 14.6.82
56. Jenkins, ALATC, p.567
57. David Owen, Time to Declare, p.531
58. Bill Rodgers to Shirley Williams, 13.5.82 [Rodgers papers, Box 42]
59. Shirley Williams, Climbing the Bookshelves, p.299
60. Shirley Williams to Bill Rodgers, 22.5.82 [Rodgers papers, Box 42]
61. Owen, p.552
62. Sunday Times, 13.6.82; Observer, 13.6.82
63. Edward Lyons to Jenkins, 9.6.82 [Jenkins papers]
64. Observer, 13.6.82
65. Jenkins papers
66. The Times, 18.6.82, reprinted in Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, pp.61–3
67. The Times, 8.6.82
68. Anthony Lester to Jenkins, 20.5.82 [Jenkins papers]
69. The Economist, 26.6.82
70. The Times, 26.6.82
71. ibid., 3.7.82
72. Clark, p.341 (10.7.82)
73. ibid., pp.356–7 (10.9.82)
74. Rodgers, p.232
75. Jenkins interviewed by David Butler, 11.6.83 [David Butler papers]
76. Rodgers to Jenkins, 8.7.82 [Rodgers papers, Box 5]
77. Mike Thomas to Jenkins, 7.9.82 [Rodgers papers, Box 30]
78. Thomas to Jenkins, 20.9.82; Rodgers to Thomas, 21.9.82 [Rodgers papers, Box 30]
79. Owen, p.560
80. ibid., p.559
81. Transcript of witness seminar, 1991 [Rodgers papers, Box 45]
82. Rodgers to Alan Watkins, 6.12.82 [Rodgers, Box 30]
83. Owen, p.566
84. Rodgers, p.232
85. Bernard Doyle to Jenkins, 10.11.82 [Jenkins papers]
86. SDP national committee minutes, 22.11.82
87. Edward Pearce, The Shooting Gallery, pp.58–60
88. Jenkins papers
89. Speech at Westminster Central Hall, 20.1.83, reprinted in Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, pp.41–6
90. Jenkins, ALATC, p.572
91. Rodgers, p.236
92. David Owen interviewed by David Butler, 25.7.83 [David Butler papers]
93. Richard Holme interviewed by David Butler, 27.4.83 [David Butler papers]
94. Jenkins, ALATC, p.573
95. The Times, 25.3.83
96. Rodgers to Jenkins, 27.11.90 [Jenkins papers]
97. The Times, 10.5.83
98. Owen, p.563
99. Jenkins, ALATC, p.570
100. Jenkins papers
101. Interview, Lord Steel of Aikwood, 2.2.10
102. Ivor Crewe & Anthony King, SDP: The Birth, Life and Death of the Social Democratic Party, p.201
103. SDP/Liberal Alliance manifesto, 1983
104. This phrase is usually attributed to Ralph Dahrendorf, but no definitive citation has been found.
105. Roy Jenkins, Nine Men of Power, p.21
106. Crewe & King, p.201
107. Patricia Lee Sykes, Losing from Inside, pp.124–5
108. ibid., p.126
109. Richard Holme interviewed by David Butler, 27.4.83 [David Butler papers]
110. David Butler & Dennis Kavanagh, The British General Election of 1983, p.125
111. Jenkins, ALATC, pp.575–6
112. Lord Diamond to Jenkins, 25.5.83 [Jenkins papers]
113. Williams, p.305
114. Crewe & King, pp.207–8
115. Jenkins, ALATC, p.576
116. Crewe & King, p.209; Williams, p.305
117. Richard Holme interviewed by David Butler, 27.4.83 [David Butler papers]
118. David Steel, Against Goliath: David Steel’s Story, p.246
119. John Pardoe interviewed by David Butler, 20.7.83 [David Butler papers]
120. The Times, 30.5.83; Guardian, 30.5.83
121. Interview, Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, 19.11.09
122. David Owen interviewed by David Butler, 25.7.83 [David Butler papers]; Owen, p.582
123. David Owen, 29.6.84, in Sykes, p.153
124. David Owen interviewed by David Butler, 25.7.83 [David Butler papers]
125. David Owen, Personally Speaking, pp.219–21
126. Rodgers to Jenkins, 27.22.90 [Jenkins papers]
127. Rodgers, p.237
128. Steel, p.244
129. Jenkins, ALATC, p.577
130. David Steel to Jenkins, 21.6.83
131. David Butler & Gareth Butler, British Political Facts, 1900–1
994
132. Articles for Daily Express and Social Democrat, both written 17.6.83; Sunday Standard, 26.6.83
133. Jenkins, ALATC, p.572
134. Hillhead election leaflet, 1983
135. The Times, 11.6.83
136. Jenkins, ALATC, p.578
137. Rodgers to Jenkins, 27.11.90 [thanks to Lord Rodgers of Quarry Bank]
138. Jenkins, ALATC, p.577
139. Jo Grimond to Jenkins, 28.7.83 [Jenkins papers]
140. SDP national committee minutes, 20.6.83
141. Article for Daily Express, written 17.6.83
142. Sunday Standard, 26.6.83
Chapter Twenty-Two: Elder Statesman
1. Roy Jenkins, A Life at the Centre [ALATC], p.580
2. Speech at SDP conference, Salford, 14.9.83, quoted in Jenkins, ALATC, p.581
3. Jenkins papers
4. Jenkins to Enoch Powell, postcard, 6.3.87 [Powell papers, POLL 1/1/38]
5. Jenkins, ALATC, p.583
6. Michael Sissons to Jenkins, 1.7.86; Collins contract, March 1987 [Jenkins papers]
7. Crispin Tickell to Jenkins, 26.8.87 [Jenkins papers]
8. Evening Standard, 9.3.89
9. Observer, 29.5.88
10. Sunday Telegraph, 10.4.88; Roy Jenkins, Gallery of Twentieth Century Portraits, p.176
11. Observer, 19.2.89; Roy Jenkins, Portraits and Miniatures, p.277
12. ibid.
13. Spectator, 24.10.87
14. Tony Benn to Jenkins, 11.10.87 [Jenkins papers]
15. Spectator, 24.10.87; Jenkins, Twentieth Century Portraits, pp.39–40
16. Jenkins to Michael Sissons, 30.10.88 [Jenkins papers]
17. The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol.1, p.425 (22.10.87)
18. Jenkins papers
19. Times Literary Supplement, 11.88
20. Jenkins papers
21. Jenkins papers
22. Ba Eustace to Jenkins, 9.2.94 [Jenkins papers]
23. The Times, 18.6.83
24. ibid.,17.7.93
25. Jenkins to John Oliver, 16.1.02 [Jenkins papers]
26. Sarah Bradford, America’s Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, pp.437–8
27. Leslie Bonham Carter to Jenkins, 20.5.90 [Jenkins papers]
28. ibid., 5.12.90
29. House of Commons, 25.3.85 [Vol.76, cols 63–71]
30. ibid., 19.3.86 [Vol.94, cols 324–9]
31. ibid., 6.11.86 [Vol.103, cols 1123–7]; The Times, 16.3.84
32. House of Commons, 14.3.84 [Vol.56, cols 430–35]
33. ibid., 19.3.86 [Vol.94, cols 324–9]
34. Keynes centenary lecture, Cambridge, 1.12.83, in Roy Jenkins, Partnership of Principle, pp.90–98
35. House of Commons, 13.11.84 [Vol.67, cols 560–65]
36. ibid., 7.7.86 [Vol.102, cols 31–4]
37. ibid., 25.3.85 [Vol.76, cols 63–71]
38. ibid., 25.3.85 [Vol.76, col.63]