Denis Healey

Birthday: August 30, 1917 in Mottingham, Kent, England, UK

Birth Name: Denis Winston Healey

Height: 181 cm

Denis Healey was born on August 30, 1917 in Mottingham, Kent, England as Denis Winston Healey. He is known for his work on Denis Healey: The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? (2015), This Question of Pressures (1969) and Saturday Live (1985). He was married to Edna Healey. He died on October 3, 2015 in Alfriston, Sussex, England.

[In 1978, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying in the House of Commons to a speech in w...Show more »

[In 1978, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying in the House of Commons to a speech in which Geoffrey Howe, the Shadow Chancellor, censured him] "That part of his speech was rather like being savaged by a dead sheep". Show less «

[when asked in 2009 whether he would have made a good prime minister if he had stood for the Labour ...Show more »

[when asked in 2009 whether he would have made a good prime minister if he had stood for the Labour leadership against James Callaghan in the 1970s] "I probably would. But it is better for people to wonder why I wasn't prime minister than to wonder why I was." Show less «

As prime minister she was bad, without any question, but when I got to know her as a human being I f...Show more »

As prime minister she was bad, without any question, but when I got to know her as a human being I found she had quite attractive qualities. One felt rather sorry for her because she was quite fragile. (On Margaret Thatcher) Show less «

Denis Healey

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