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Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Anthony Crosland debate among themselves in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s look at the big beasts of 70s Westminster

It was a by-election that caused a political earthquake. In 1981, Shirley Williams changed the temperature in Westminster when the new Social Democratic Party triumphed in the once true blue seat of Crosby. Months before, her fellow Gang of Four member Roy Jenkins had come tantalisingly close to winning a…

The forthcoming election is the first to be held online

In their different ways, the prime minister and the home secretary clearly just wanted to be seen to be acting tough, says the Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

In the run-up to the 1997 General Election, Roy Jenkins famously compared an ever-cautious Tony Blair to a man “carrying a priceless Ming vase across a highly polished floor.” More than a quarter of a century on, the same line has been thrown repeatedly at Sir Keir Starmer. But today,…

Letters: Roy Jenkins’ 1960s reforms were purely legal and social, not financial-political, says Brian Hatton, while Julian Harber takes aim at the honours system

These independent inquiries would rise above the party-political deadlock over reform for the NHS and housing, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Like Roy Jenkins and Kenneth Clarke before him, he can do little but tackle a crisis bequeathed to him by Conservative folly

Instead of fighting for the centre ground, Keir Starmer should look to the radical changes pushed through under Harold Wilson, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins