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Programme aired on BBC Radio 5, 2 April 2025.
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He discusses a range of topics including world affairs under the Trump presidency; NATO, Ukraine and Russia; the need, from a security perspective, for the UK to “be more European”; and defence spending. Lord Owen also touches on the current electoral scene with the rise of Reform and the need for some form of proportional …
As of today (2 September 2024) Lord Owen has retired from the House of Lords. Given the new Government’s manifesto commitment to reform the House of Lords both in terms of hereditary Peers and retirement age, Lord Owen at the age of 86 is happy to voluntarily retire believing that the House of Lords is in need of serious reform to become a much more democratic chamber.…
“As Minister of Health I announced to Parliament on 22 January 1975 the policy of achieving self-sufficiency in blood products to remove the reliance on imported blood products which ran the risk of having come from dubious donors from other countries, in particular America’s ‘skid row’, who had been paid to donate. I authorised the allocation of special finance to bring about self-sufficiency which I was assured could be achieved …
Lord Owen discusses the report of the Infected Blood Inquiry. Watch it here: Sky News interview…
Lord Owen discussing a Victims and Prisoners Bill amendment dealing with compensation for victims of infected blood. House of Lords, 26 February 2024.
“…there can be no more ducking and weaving, and no more appeals from the Chancellor to delay it for another year or anything like that. This time, we have to honour it—and we have to do it this year.”
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Extended interview on ‘The News Agents’ podcast of 19 January 2024 (42 mins), plus related Press Release.
Read the associated press release here: Lord Owen Upcoming Election Press Release
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“The writing is on the wall for the two party alternation of power between Labour and the
Lord Owen discusses breaking away from Labour—having become their Foreign Secretary aged just 38—with the ‘Gang of Four’ to form the SDP. He reviews this defining moment in UK political history; the SDP’s legacy; which PMs suffer ‘hubris syndrome’; the economy; the NHS; and much more.
View a video of the podcast here…
“…an underlying substantial increase in the size of our national debt …has in part been deliberately masked...there will be no long-term solution…until we face up to the record of the Treasury & the Bank as an overdominant force making bad decisions (contributing) to Britain’s economic failures.”
Lord Owen’s analysis of the issues currently facing Britain is set out in a new discussion paper published in March 2023 by the …