Summary
ROY Hattersley - for that is what he insists on calling himself despite his elevation to the peerage - admits he is a strange sort of patriot.
As the former deputy Labour leader says in the introduction to his new book, In Search of England: "I have never believed in the unique virtue of the Anglo-Saxon race and I cannot bring myself to rejoice in the thought that once upon a time, the sun never set on the British Empire."See the full content of this document
Extract
I Won't Be a Rover, Says Roy
Yet, as he lifts his eyes to Longstone Edge from the window of his beloved limestone cottage in north Derbyshire, he confesses that England is the only place he could ever live.
His allegiance, he says...See the full content of this document
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