The Lord Taverne | |
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 Official portrait, 2018 | |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury | |
| In office 13 October 1969 – 19 June 1970 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Harold Lever |
| Succeeded by | Patrick Jenkin |
| Minister of State for the Treasury | |
| In office 6 April 1968 – 13 October 1969 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Bill Rodgers |
| Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department | |
| In office 6 April 1966 – 6 April 1968 | |
| Prime Minister | Harold Wilson |
| Preceded by | George Thomas |
| Succeeded by | Elystan Morgan |
| Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal | |
| Assumed office 5 February 1996 Life Peerage | |
| Member of Parliament for Lincoln | |
| In office 8 March 1962 – 20 September 1974 | |
| Preceded by | Geoffrey de Freitas |
| Succeeded by | Margaret Jackson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 October 1928 |
| Political party | Labour (until 1972) Democratic Labour (1972–80) SDP (1981–88) Liberal Democrats (since 1988) |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
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Dick Taverne, Baron Taverne, KC (born 18 October 1928) is a British politician and life peer who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Lincoln from 1962 to 1974.[1] A member of the Liberal Democrats, he was a Labour MP until his deselection in 1972,[2] following which he resigned his seat and won the subsequent by-election in 1973 as a Democratic Labour candidate.[3]
Taverne's 1973 victory in Lincoln was short-lived; despite retaining his seat at the February 1974 general election, Labour regained the seat at the October 1974 general election, by the future cabinet minister Margaret Beckett. However, his success opened the possibility of a realignment on the left of British politics, which took shape in 1981 as the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which Taverne joined. He later joined the Liberal Democrats when the SDP merged with the Liberal Party. He has sat as a Liberal Democrat life peer since 1996.
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- ^ Shaw, Eric, 1949- (1988). Discipline and discord in the Labour Party : the politics of managerial control in the Labour Party, 1951-87. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 071902482X. OCLC 17412352.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Dick Taverne: "Some of the Labour Party people have absolutely nowhere to go"". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 8 October 2019.