Roy Hattersley: Labour’s ‘nearly man’ who fought to hold the party together

Roy Hattersley, a longtime Labour politician and prolific author, is credited with preventing his party from collapsing into far-left extremism during the 1980s. His efforts to maintain party moderation despite personal mockery helped stabilize the movement, eventually paving the way for the electoral successes of the late 1990s.

Summary based on Daily Mail article