David Owen
The Lord Carrington
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Born | David Anthony Llewellyn Owen 2 July 1938 Plympton, Devon, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Other political affiliations | Labour (1960–1981) SDP (1981–1988) 'Continuing' SDP (1988–1990) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen,
Owen served as British Foreign Secretary from 1977 to 1979, at the age of 38 the youngest person in over forty years to hold the post. In 1981, Owen was one of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party to found the Social Democratic Party. He was the only member of the Gang of Four who did not join the Liberal Democrats, which was founded when the SDP merged with the Liberal Party. Owen led the Social Democratic Party from 1983 to 1987, and the continuing SDP from 1988 to 1990. Appointed as a life peer in 1992, he sat in the House of Lords as a crossbencher until March 2014, and now sits as an "independent social democrat".[2]
In the course of his career, Owen has held, and resigned from, a number of senior posts. He first quit as Labour's spokesman on defence in 1972 in protest at the Labour leader and former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's attitude to the European Economic Community; he left the Labour Shadow cabinet over the same issue later; and over unilateral disarmament in November 1980 when Michael Foot became Labour leader. He resigned from the Labour Party when it rejected one member, one vote in February 1981 and later as Leader of the Social Democratic Party, which he had helped to found, after the party's rank-and-file membership voted to merge with the Liberal Party.
Early life
Owen was born in 1938 to
Owen was deeply affected by the
[T]here was Gaitskell ... criticizing Eden, and here were these men working alongside me, who should have been his natural supporters, furious with him. The Daily Mirror backed Gaitskell, but these men were tearing up their Daily Mirrors every day. ... My working mates were solidly in favour of Eden. It was not only that they taught me how people like them think; they also opened my eyes to how I should think myself. From then on I never identified with the liberal – with a small 'l' – establishment. Through that experience I became suspicious of a kind of automatic sogginess which you come across in many aspects of British life. ... The rather defeatist, even traitorous attitude reflected in the pre-war Apostles at Cambridge. I suppose it underlay the appeasement years. Its modern equivalent is a resigned attitude to Britain's continuous post-war economic decline.[6][7]
Medicine and politics
In 1960, Owen joined the
Member of Parliament
At the next
From 1968 to 1970, Owen served as
In Government
As Minister of State for Health he encouraged Britain to become "self-sufficient" in blood products such as
In September 1976, Owen was appointed by the new Prime Minister of five months,
In 1977, Owen was condemned by Black civil rights leader
Shortly after Labour's defeat in the
Eighteen months after Labour lost power, the staunchly left-wing politician Michael Foot was elected party leader, despite vocal opposition from Labour Party moderates (including Owen), sparking a crisis over the party's future.
Social Democratic Party and Liberal–SDP Alliance
Michael Foot's election as Labour party leader indicated that the party was likely to become more left-wing, and in 1980 committed itself to withdrawing from the EEC without even a referendum (as Labour had carried out in 1975). Labour also endorsed unilateral nuclear disarmament and introduced an electoral college for leadership elections, with 40% of the college going to a block vote of the trade unions.
Early in 1981, Owen and three other senior moderate Labour politicians –
Twenty-eight other Labour MPs and one Conservative MP (
In 1982, during the
SDP leadership
Owen is widely regarded as having been, at the very least, a competent party leader. He had high popularity ratings throughout his leadership as did the SDP–Liberal Alliance. Owen kept a high profile, so much so that Spitting Image, the satirical puppet show, depicted the Liberal leader David Steel popping up like a jack-in-the-box in Owen's pocket. He succeeded in keeping the party in the public eye and in maintaining its independence from the Liberals for the length of the 1983 Parliament. Moreover, under him, the SDP increased its representation from six to eight seats via the by-election victories of Mike Hancock, at Portsmouth South (1984), and Rosie Barnes, at Greenwich (1987).
However, the progress of the SDP–Liberal Alliance as a whole was hampered, with policy splits between the two parties. The first was over the
Moreover, Owen, unlike Jenkins, faced an increasingly moderate Labour Party under Neil Kinnock and a dynamic Conservative government. The 1987 general election was as disappointing for the Alliance as the 1983 election and it lost one seat. Nevertheless, it won over 23% of the vote – at that time, the second-largest third-placed vote in British politics since 1929.
Full parties' merger
In 1987 immediately after the election, the Liberal leader David Steel proposed a full merger of the Liberal and SDP parties and was supported for the SDP by Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams and Bill Rodgers. Owen rejected this notion outright, on the grounds that he and other Social Democrats wished to remain faithful to social democracy as it was practised within Western Europe, and it was unlikely that any merged party would be able to do this, even if it was under his leadership. Nevertheless, the majority of the SDP membership supported the merger.
The Liberal Party and SDP merged to form the Social and Liberal Democrats (SLD) in March 1988, renamed the Liberal Democrats in October 1989.
At the request of two of the remaining SDP MPs,
Some branches, however, continued to function using the
Lord Holme later blamed Owen for the Alliance's failure to make a breakthrough at the 1987 general election, believing that a merged party would have performed much better and possibly gained more votes and seats than Labour.[24]
Post-SDP: Political allegiances as a life peer
After winding up the re-formed SDP, Owen announced his intention to stand down as an MP at the next general election. He then served the remainder of his term as an independent MP and after the
During the April 1992 election campaign, Owen writing in The Mail on Sunday newspaper advised voters to vote Liberal Democrat where they had a chance of victory and to vote Conservative rather than let Neil Kinnock become Prime Minister. Owen maintained his long-standing position that he would never join the Conservative Party, although the memoirs of at least three of John Major's cabinet ministers refer to Major being quite keen to appoint Owen to his cabinet, but threats of resignation from within the Cabinet prevented him from doing so. When asked in a conversation with Woodrow Wyatt on 18 December 1988 whether she would have Owen in her government if approached by him, Margaret Thatcher replied: "Well, not straight away. I don't think I would do it straight away. He was very good on the Northern Ireland terrorist business. He's wasting his life now. It's so tragic. He's got real ability and it ought to be used".[26] In another conversation with Wyatt on 4 June 1990 Thatcher said Owen's natural home was the Conservative Party.[27][28]
Owen was approached privately by Tony Blair, then leader of the Opposition, in 1996 on whether he was ready to support New Labour. Lord Owen declined mainly because he disagreed with Blair's intention, as Prime Minister, to join the eurozone.[29] In 2019, Owen recounted that Blair implied that a “political future” awaited him if he rejoined Labour. Owen said he "was very tempted, but then [Blair] started to talk about the euro.” Owen concluded that Blair was “passionately committed” to taking Britain into the Euro; thus, Owen said no.[30]
In May 2005, he was approached two days before the general election by someone very close to Tony Blair to endorse Labour. He declined, because though he did not want a Conservative government, he wanted the Liberal Democrats to do sufficiently well to ensure a greatly reduced Labour majority.[31] In September 2007, it was reported in the British press that Lord Owen had met the new Prime Minister Gordon Brown and afterwards had refused to rule out supporting Labour at the next general election.[32] It later emerged that he could have been part of the "government of all the talents" initiative advising on the NHS, but Owen declined. In October 2009 he wrote an article in The Times predicting that the Conservatives, then well ahead in the opinion polls, were unlikely to win an outright majority. He helped create the web-based Charter 2010 to explain and promote the potential of a hung parliament. The website campaign was launched in January 2010 while the Conservatives still appeared on course to win outright. Within weeks the polls changed and the website became a major source of information about hung parliaments. In May 2010 The Sunday Times called Owen "the prophet of the coalition".
During the 2011 Alternative Vote referendum he signed a letter in The Guardian stating that he opposed AV but would continue to campaign for proportional representation.[33]
In January 2011, Owen said that his "heart was with Labour" and that he looked forward to the time when he could vote Labour again. He added that what hampered him in the past was the way the Labour Party elects its leader and it was very necessary for the electoral college arrangement to be reformed and he refused to rule out joining the Labour Party in the future. He vigorously opposed the Health and Social Care Bill in 2011–12. In a pamphlet, "Fatally Flawed", he demonstrated that far from the internal market, which he had championed in the 1980s, the Bill introduced an external market and he worked closely with the Labour Front Bench in the House of Lords. In March 2014, it was revealed that Owen had donated over £7,500 to the Labour Party, following the Labour leader Ed Miliband's reforms of the party's links with trade unions. No longer eligible to sit as a crossbencher, Owen now sits in the House of Lords as an "Independent Social Democrat".[2] Owen later said he admired Miliband's "integrity" and "guts".[30]
In the June 2017 general election, Owen continued to support the Labour Party, though he had once been a political opponent of Labour's new leader, Jeremy Corbyn. He added that he was "pleasantly surprised that the manifesto was a lot better than expected", and praised Corbyn for showing "more flexibility in taking account of Labour MPs and party members’ views than ever Michael Foot did" in reference to the manifesto's commitments to NATO and nuclear weapons despite Corbyn's lifelong pacifism. He made political donations to the national Labour Party, as well as the Labour candidate in his former constituency of Plymouth Sutton & Devonport, Luke Pollard, who successfully won the seat.[34]
However in March 2019, Owen said he would not support Labour, criticising Corbyn's leadership for its failure to "unequivocally" root out
Subsequent international role
In August 1992, Owen was British Prime Minister John Major's choice to succeed Lord Carrington as the EU co-chairman of the Conference for the Former Yugoslavia, along with Cyrus Vance, the former US Secretary of State as the UN co-chairman.
Some believe David Owen comes across badly in Adam Le Bor's book, Milosevic: A Biography: "After he was appointed the European Community negotiator for the former Yugoslavia in 1992, Lord Owen and his wife Debbie cultivated a personal friendship with Milosevic and his wife Mira, flying in a helicopter to lunch with them in one of Tito's former palaces and offering publishing advice to Mira Milosevic". In August 1992, five months after the Bosnian war started, Owen said, "Now it is clear that Milosevic really wants peace".[37]
Owen became a joint author of the
In early 1994, the
In January 1995, Lord Owen wrote to François Mitterrand as President of the European Union to say that he wished to step down before the end of the French presidency. At the end of May 1995, he was succeeded by the former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt. "Had I been younger, I would probably have resigned when the Americans ditched the Vance-Owen Peace Plan".[42]
Owen testified as a witness of the court in the
Later political commentary
Lord Owen has continued to speak out on issues of international affairs including on nuclear proliferation and constrained intervention. In 2011 he was the first politician to call for a "no-fly zone" over Libya. In an editorial on 27 February 2011 the Sunday Times said, "It was a man who has not been in office for nearly 32 years – Lord Owen, the former foreign secretary – who has been the most eloquent British voice over Libya. His call for a no-fly-zone ... struck the right note".
Contaminated blood scandal
As former Minister of State for Health, Lord Owen has long been highly critical of previous governments for their role in and handling of the
In 2009 the culmination of these efforts, the privately funded and independent "Archer Report" in which Lord Owen was heavily involved, published its findings[45] but was thwarted because it had no power to compel witnesses as it was not a statutory public inquiry. Successive governments have refused to hold a public inquiry[46] into the matter and continue to withhold documentation on grounds of commercial interest.[47]
During his investigation into the matter he attempted to access his archived documents and files from his time as minister. At first he was told "they couldn't find them" and was later told they had all been destroyed;[48] the exact series of events that led to the destruction of these documents remains a mystery and continues to raise questions amongst MPs such as Alistair Burt.[49] Lord Owen has regularly told the media that he is not a conspiracy theorist but that he does suspect there has been a cover-up carried out by the Civil Service[50] and that this was done after prosecutions and jail sentences were brought against government officials in France.[51][52]
In September 2016 at a film-screening of the documentary Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale, he dramatically ended a 15-minute speech on the subject proclaiming: "I have failed and I feel very miserable about it".[53]
In October 2016, the Civil Service Commission refused a request to investigate Lord Owen's destroyed documents[54] and separately the Department of Health advised that "the Department does not have any plans to make public the identity of junior officials involved in this matter".[55]
On 10 May 2017 he featured in an episode of
On 22 September 2020, Lord Owen gave evidence to the Infected Blood Inquiry in London. As part of his testimony he said: "We should have realised how dangerous it was to rely on blood coming in from abroad from people who were given blood for money".[57]
European Union and subsequent support for Brexit
Owen had previously been a supporter of Britain's membership of the
As chairman of New Europe, he was the co-leader of the 'No to the Euro' campaign with Business for Sterling, which ceased when the UK Government declared in 2005 that Euro membership was off the agenda following the defeat of the EU Constitution in referendums in France and the Netherlands.[citation needed]
He called for a referendum before Britain's ratification of the
Lord Owen continued to argue for engagement, criticising David Cameron's so-called 'veto' in December 2011 and arguing instead for a formal non-eurozone grouping with the right to join or leave the eurozone. In June 2012 Lord Owen published Europe Restructured, outlining a blueprint for restructuring the EU to allow for those countries that wish to be part of a more integrated eurozone to be facilitated while those who may only want to belong to a Single Market community are enabled to do so. He stated that a referendum on the UK's relationship with the EU was inevitable.
In February 2016, he announced that he was backing
Owen was interviewed in 2012 as part of The History of Parliament's oral history project.[62][63]
Ukraine
In February 2022 he signed a letter to the Financial Times, alongside Robert Skidelsky and others, about Ukraine,[64] in which he said, "Nato governments have rightly said they are willing to address Russia’s security concerns, but then say in the same breath that Russia has no legitimate security concerns because Nato is a purely defensive alliance. Whether we like it or not, a Nato that now borders Russia and could in future border even more of Russia is seen by Russia as a security concern."[65]
Enterprises and affiliations
Lord Owen was chairman of Yukos International UK BV, a division of the former Russian petroleum company
Owen was the Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, from 1996 to 2009. He has written extensively on the interaction between illness and politics, with a particular emphasis on the 'hubris syndrome', a condition affecting those at the pinnacle of power. The concept has been most fully developed in a co-authored paper in Brain.[66] The concept of hubris syndrome has been analysed by Professor Gerald Russell.[67] Lord Owen is chairman of the Trustees of the Daedalus Trust established to promote and provide funds for the interdisciplinary study of how 'the intoxication of power' in all walks of life can affect personality and decision making.[68]
Personal life
He married Deborah Owen (née Schabert), an American literary agent, in 1968. They have two sons and one daughter, Tristan, Gareth and Lucy.[citation needed][69]
In popular culture
Owen was a main character in Steve Waters' 2017 play Limehouse, which premiered at the Donmar Warehouse; Owen was portrayed by Tom Goodman-Hill, with Nathalie Armin playing his wife.[70]
Selected publications
- David Owen, The Politics of Defence (Jonathan Cape and Taplinger Pub. Co, 1972)
- David Owen, In Sickness and in Health: the Politics of Medicine (Quartet Books, 1976)
- David Owen, Human Rights (Jonathan Cape and W.W. Norton & Company, 1978)
- David Owen, Face the Future (Jonathan Cape and Praeger, 1981)
- David Owen, A Future That Will Work (Viking 1984, Praeger, 1985)
- David Owen, A United Kingdom (Penguin Books, 1986)
- David Owen to Kenneth Harris, Personally Speaking (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987)
- David Owen, Our NHS (Pan Books, 1988)
- David Owen, Time to Declare (Michael Joseph, 1992)
- David Owen, Balkan Odyssey (Victor Gollancz, Harcourt Brace 1995)
- David Owen, The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power (Politico's, 2007; updated edition 2012)
- David Owen, In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years (Methuen, 2008; revised edition 2011) and "In Sickness and In Power. Illness in Heads of Government, Military and business leaders since 1900" (Methuen, 2016)
- David Owen, Time to Declare: Second Innings (Politico's, 2009) – revised and updated abridgement of Time to Declare and Balkan Odyssey
- David Owen, Nuclear Papers (Liverpool University Press, 2009)
- David Owen, Europe Restructured (Methuen, 2012)
- David Owen, "The Health of the Nation. NHS in Peril" (Methuen, 2014)
- David Owen, The Hidden Perspective: the Military Conversations 1906–1914 (Haus Publishing, 2014)
- David Owen, "Cabinet's Finest Hour. The Hidden Agenda of May 1940" (Haus Publishing, 2016)
• David Owen, Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma. Two Hundred Years Of British–Russian Relations (Haus Publishing, 2021)
References
- ^ "Dr David Owen (Hansard)". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Retrieved 10 May 2021.
- ^ a b Eaton, George (2 March 2014). "David Owen joins Miliband's big tent with donation to Labour of more than £7,500". New Statesman. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ a b Harris 1988, p. 1
- ^ "The Political Party: Show 225 – David Owen on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts.
- ^ Harris 1988, p. 7
- ^ Harris 1988, p. 17
- ^ David Marquand, The Progressive Dilemma: From Lloyd George to Blair (London: Phoenix, 1999), p. 203.
- ^ "Final report" (PDF). Penrose inquiry.
- ^ "World In Action – Blood Money Part 2 – December 1975". CampaignTB. 2 January 2013. Archived from the original on 21 August 2013 – via YouTube.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: "Lord David Owen – Bad Blood Speech 29/9/16". Factor8Scandal. 30 September 2016 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Haemophiliac HIV tragedy ′needless′". London: BBC News. 3 August 2001. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
Lord Owen, Secretary of State for Health in 1975, claimed the Department of Health failed to spend money allocated to stop the import of blood and blood products from abroad. Instead, the imports, particularly from the US, and including those tainted by HIV or hepatitis, continued – without his knowledge, he said.
- ^ Youle, Emma (5 October 2016). "'Medics knew risk of HIV-infected blood' given to patients at Royal Free Hospital". Ham & High. Archant Community Media.
- ^ Evans, Andrew. "taintedblood.info". Archived from the original on 2 January 2007.
- ^ "NHS Blood Products: Effects of Contamination". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). 30 March 2000.
- ISSN 2055-7035. Retrieved 8 May 2023.
- ^ Wooldridge, Mike; Owen, David (16 August 2003). Unsworth, Fran; Hockaday, Mary; Edwards, Huw; Naja, Nielsen; Jordan, Sula; Darcey, Mary; Lee, Ralph; Munro, Jonathan; Runcie, Ellie; Pembrooke, Robin (eds.). "UK considered killing Idi Amin". London, United Kingdom of Great Britain: BBC News. Archived from the original on 17 November 2006.
- ^ Parkhouse, Geoffrey (15 June 1979). "Shore steps up as Owen is demoted". Glasgow Herald. Retrieved 8 January 2019 – via Google News.
- ISBN 978-1-134-75555-4– via Google Books.
- ^ "The Gang of Three hold talks". Glasgow Herald. 19 January 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 4 May 2016 – via Google News.
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- ^ Ronson, Jon (10 March 2001). "Who pulls the strings? (part 3)". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 July 2009.
During the Falklands war, the British government's request for international sanctions against Argentina fell on stony ground. But at a Bilderberg meeting in, I think, Denmark, David Owen stood up and gave the most fiery speech in favour of imposing them. Well, the speech changed a lot of minds. I'm sure that various foreign ministers went back to their respective countries and told their leaders what David Owen had said. And you know what? Sanctions were imposed
- ^ "1983: Maggie's Landslide". Election Battles 1945–1997. BBC News. 2001. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "SDP: Breaking the mould". BBC News. 25 January 2001.
- ^ "Top Ten: Lib Dem 'breakthrough moments'". ePolitix.com. 24 April 2010. Archived from the original on 12 May 2010. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ "No. 52981". The London Gazette. 3 July 1992. p. 11255.
- ^ Sarah Curtis (ed.), The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt. Volume One (London: Pan, 1999), p. 691.
- ^ Sarah Curtis (ed.), The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt. Volume Two (London: Pan, 2000), p. 305.
- ^ Hennessy, Patrick (16 September 2007). "The gang Labour blames for wilderness years". The Telegraph.
- ^ David Owen, Time to Declare: Second Innings (Politico's, 2009)
- ^ a b c "'They did it out of desperation' – David Owen on the Independent Group, May's failure and why he stands by Brexit". The Guardian. 21 March 2019.
- ^ David Owen In Sickness and in Power p.305
- ^ Kite, Melissa (16 September 2007). "David Owen in talks with Gordon Brown". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ "Letters: We will continue to campaign for PR". The Guardian. 11 March 2011. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
- ^ 'Former SDP leader David Owen backs Corbyn's manifesto and donates to Labour' Archived 25 December 2017 at the Wayback Machine SY Briefing, 19 May 2017
- ^ "How must the 5 million Labour voters who backed Brexit feel now?". Lord David Owen. 20 October 2019.
- ^ Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia [2001] by Brendan Simms p137
- ^ Milosevic: A Biography [2002] by Adam Le Bor p185
- ^ Balkan Tragedy (1995) Susan L. Woodward p304
- ^ Origins of the Catastrophe (1999) Warren Zimmermann p222
- ^ Unfinest Hour, p167
- ^ "No. 53696". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 June 1994. p. 5.
- ^ Unfinest Hour p 157–8
- ^ Meikle, James (19 August 2002). "Owen demands inquiry into infected blood scandal". The Guardian.
- ^ Boseley, Sarah (14 June 2007). "HIV diagnosis took huge toll on family, blood inquiry told". The Guardian.
- ^ "The Archer Inquiry". Channel 4 News.
- ^ "Victims of the blood contamination scandal might finally get justice after 35 years". The Independent. 14 September 2016.
- ^ Boseley, Sarah (25 January 2009). "Government withholding blood scandal evidence". The Guardian.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: CampaignTB (15 May 2010). "Lord David Owen : Department Of Health warned of risks in 1983" – via YouTube.
- ^ "Contaminated Blood and Blood Products: 24 Nov 2016: House of Commons debates". TheyWorkForYou. MySociety. 24 November 2016.
- ^ "HIV blood disaster papers 'were pulped'". The Telegraph.
- ^ "France Convicts 3 in Case of H.I.V.-Tainted Blood". The New York Times. 24 October 1992.
- ^ "Contaminated Blood, The Reunion". BBC Radio 4. 16 September 2016.
- ^ Hattenstone, Simon (3 March 2018). "Britain's contaminated blood scandal: 'I need them to admit they killed our son'". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
In September 2016, Lord Owen addressed an audience of campaigners and victims of the contaminated blood scandal, referring to a 'cover–up' and saying 'incriminating evidence' had been suppressed by the government. 'At every single stage, the truth has been there and people have evaded it, and that must carry a penalty.' Lord Owen was visibly distressed as he said: 'I have failed and I feel very miserable about it.'
- ^ "Destruction of Departmental Papers – a Freedom of Information request to Civil Service Commission". WhatDoTheyKnow. MySociety. 4 October 2016.
- ^ "Destruction of Documents – Name – a Freedom of Information request to Department of Health". WhatDoTheyKnow. MySociety. 4 October 2016.
- ^ "Contaminated Blood: The Search for the Truth". Panorama. BBC One.
- ^ Bowcott, Owen (22 September 2020). "US blood was too freely imported to UK in 70s and 80s, David Owen tells inquiry". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
- ^ Demolder, Theo (1 May 2016). "Lord Owen: "Where's the radicalism in the Labour Party?"". Varsity Online. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ Press Association (24 February 2016). "Leaving the EU could 're-energise' Britain, says David Owen". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ Mason, Rowena (5 April 2016). "Brexit is necessary to protect NHS from TTIP, says David Owen". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ "'They did it out of desperation' – David Owen on the Independent Group, May's failure and why he stands by Brexit". BBC News. 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Oral history: Owen, David (b.1938)". The History of Parliament. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ "Lord Owen interviewed by Mike Greenwood". British Library Sound Archive. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
- ^ "Letter: Remember Kissinger's advice to the Ukrainians". Financial Times. 28 February 2022. Archived from the original on 10 December 2022. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
- ^ "Robert Skidelsky". Robert Skidelsky.
- ^ David Owen and Jonathan Davidson, "Hubris Syndrome: An Acquired Personality Disorder? A study of US presidents and UK Prime Ministers over the last 100 years" Brain 2009: 132; 1407–1410
- ^ The Psychiatrist April 2011 35:140–145
- ^ "Daedalus Trust". Archived from the original on 2 September 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
- ^ "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, Baron Owen (Life Peer) 1992". Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, online database. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 26 March 2024.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "David Tennant, Roger Allam and more at Limehouse opening night". WhatsOnStage.com. 9 March 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
Sources
- Harris, Kenneth (1988). David Owen: Personally Speaking. Pan Books Ltd. ISBN 0-330-30608-1.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by David Owen
- The David Owen Archive University of Liverpool (Archived)
- David Owen resigns as SDP leader BBC News On This Day,
- Lord Owen House of Lords (Archived)
- The NS Interview: David Owen New Statesman, 4 May 2010