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Roy Jenkins — ink portrait
§ The minds · 1920–2003 · United Kingdom · Home Secretary

Roy Jenkins

The permissive society

Liberal reform of private life.

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Governance+22
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The reforming Home Secretary who decriminalised homosexuality, eased divorce and abolished theatre censorship — building the 'civilised society' that defines social liberalism's cultural side.

social

Drove landmark liberal reforms — a strongly progressive record.

economic

Mixed-economy social democrat turned centrist founder.

governance

Used the reforming state to expand personal freedom.

Notable for
  • Decriminalised homosexuality
  • Liberal social reforms of the 1960s
  • Co-founded the SDP
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