In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

He later wrote the "diary" of Buster writing from the dog's perspective on the incident in which it claimed to have acted in self-defence. Early life
Roy Hattersley has been a socialist and Labour supporter from his youth electioneering at the age of 12 for his local MP and city councillors beginning in 1945. He was made a life peer as Baron Hattersley of Sparkbrook in the County of West Midlands.

He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 to 1992.