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Name: Roy Hattersley
Field:
Politician
Productions:
An Audience With Roy Hattersley
After Dinner Speaker Biography: Although he was born in Manchester, David Lloyd George – who was brought up in Llanystumdwy after his father’s death when he was barely a year old – was by blood, birth and instict a Welshman. Indeed Wales made him. It was because of what he learned in the village school and chapel that he became the authentic radical of British history - the man who founded the welfare state and broke the power of the House of Lords when it stood in the way of his Old Age Pensions Bill. Lloyd George was destined to become Prime Minister and his leadership of the nation, between 1916 and 1918, earned him the deserved title of “The Man Who Won The War.” During his next four years in Downing Street, he lost the peace. Overwhelmed by a coalition which consisted mainly of his opponents, his hopes of creating “a land fit for heroes” was never realised. But his whole life –scandalous in private and brilliant in public – makes him one of the most fascinating politicians of the twentieth century.
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