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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.…
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…
Lord Owen speaks to the Planet Normal podcast of the UK’s Daily Telegraph (22 April 2021). In a wide-ranging interview, he discusses the Government’s response to Covid, the various lobbying scandals and the wisdom of proper Cabinet Government. In particular, in the wake of the death of Shirley Williams he talks of the ‘what ifs’ of history if she had become, as he wished, leader of the Social Democratic Party …
“As we all settle into isolation for, I hope, only a few more weeks, I have been sorting out papers from the past and I thought it worth posting one or two on my website for a few people to read.
“The article ‘Labour’s Love’s Lost’ was published in a journal called Queen on 2 October 1962.
“It appeared just after I had been chosen as the prospective Labour candidate …
Lord Owen writing in The Sunday Times, 24 February 2019.
Read the full article here: Sunday Times article
Extracts:
“…Disowning the largest democratic vote in our history, and commitments made as recently as the 2017 general election to deliver in parliament the referendum result, is, to put it mildly, an odd basis for starting a new centre grouping intended to destroy the other two parties, as the Independent Group of …
Lord Owen’s speech on 13 December 2018 in the Debate on the current constitutional challenges within the UK and the case for the establishment of a UK-wide Constitutional Convention to address issues of democratic accountability and devolution, particularly in England.
View the speech here: Constitutional Challenges
Read the text here: HL13.12.18
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