Roy Hattersley, Labour Deputy Who Chose the Life of the Mind, Dies at 93

Roy Hattersley, former Labour Deputy Leader under Neil Kinnock, died on 13 June at 93. After leaving frontline politics following Labour's 1992 defeat, he spent decades as an author, journalist, and *Guardian* columnist—articulating a philosophical case for social democracy through political memoir, biography, and sustained intellectual argument. This model of public thinking stood apart in an era of message discipline, and with his death, a generation of Labour figures shaped by Thatcherism is nearly gone.