Roy Jenkins 1983 general election, when Owen succeeded him unopposed. Jenkins was disappointed with Owen's move to the right, and his acceptance and backing of some of Thatcher's policies. At heart, Jenkins remained a Keynesian. He continued to serve as SDP Member of Parliament for Glasgow Hillhead until his defeat at the 1987 general election by the Labour candidate George Galloway, after boundary changes in 1983 had changed the character of the constituency. From 1987, Jenkins remained in politics as a member of the House of Lords as a life peer with the title Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, of Pontypool in the
Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins Sir Simon David Jenkins (born 10 June 1943) is a British author and a newspaper columnist and editor. He was editor of the "Evening Standard" from 1976 to 1978 and of "The Times" from 1990 to 1992. Jenkins chaired the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty from 2008 to 2014. He currently writes columns for both "The Guardian" and "Evening Standard". Jenkins was born , in Birmingham, England. His father is theologian and United Reformed Church minister Daniel Thomas Jenkins. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Oxford, where he