|
|
"A collaborative political resource." |
Denis Healey at 90
|
| Parent(s) |
Candidate
-
|
| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Edited | Thomas Walker Aug 30, 2007 04:09pm |
| Category | Profile |
| News Date | Mar 30, 2007 04:00pm |
| Description | Modesty has never been one of Denis Healey's strong suits.
Now, approaching his 90th birthday, he still takes pleasure in being outrageous.
At one point during my interview with him for a special edition of BBC Radio Four's Archive Hour to mark his forthcoming birthday, he claimed to have personally succeeded in stopping further world conflict in the period since the end of the Second World War.
He had become a politician, he said, to stop the Third World War, but couldn't help adding: "I don't know if you'd noticed - but I succeeded."
To be fair, he added that he had had "some help from the atom bomb". |
| Article | Read Article |
|
|
