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href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Owen_(gwleidydd)" title="David Owen (gwleidydd) – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="David Owen (gwleidydd)" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Owen_(Politiker)" title="David Owen (Politiker) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="David Owen (Politiker)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Owen" title="David Owen – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="David Owen" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%A6%D9%86" title="دیوید اوئن – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="دیوید اوئن" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Owen" title="David Owen – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="David Owen" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Owen" title="David Owen – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="David Owen" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Owen" title="David Owen – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="David Owen" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kernowek</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86" title="ديفيد اوين – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ديفيد اوين" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Owen" title="David Owen – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="David Owen" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Official portrait, 2018</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs">Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />21 February 1977 – 4 May 1979</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">James Callaghan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Crosland" title="Anthony Crosland">Anthony Crosland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_Carrington" class="mw-redirect" title="The Lord Carrington">The Lord Carrington</a> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed lightgrey;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Party political offices</div></th> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Defence" title="Secretary of State for Defence">Sec. of State</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Denis_Healey" title="Denis Healey">Denis Healey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Foley_(politician)" title="Maurice Foley (politician)">Maurice Foley</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Kirk_(English_politician)" title="Peter Kirk (English politician)">Peter Kirk</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed lightgrey;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Shadow Cabinet offices</div></th> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Secretary of State for Energy">Shadow Secretary of State for Energy</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />14 July 1979 – 4 November 1980</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">James Callaghan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Official_Opposition_Shadow_Cabinet_(United_Kingdom)" title="Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)">Shadowing</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Howell,_Baron_Howell_of_Guildford" title="David Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford">David Howell</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tom_King,_Baron_King_of_Bridgwater" title="Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater">Tom King</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Merlyn_Rees" title="Merlyn Rees">Merlyn Rees</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs">Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />4 May 1979 – 14 July 1979</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">Leader</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">James Callaghan</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Official_Opposition_Shadow_Cabinet_(United_Kingdom)" title="Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom)">Shadowing</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/The_Lord_Carrington" class="mw-redirect" title="The Lord Carrington">The Lord Carrington</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Pym" title="Francis Pym">Francis Pym</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Shore" title="Peter Shore">Peter Shore</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr> </tbody></table> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin-bottom:-.65em; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed lightgrey;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Parliamentary offices</div></th> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_House_of_Lords" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the House of Lords">Member of the House of Lords</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Lord_Temporal" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Temporal">Lord Temporal</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />30 June 1992 – 13 August 2024<br /><a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">Life peerage</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Devonport" class="mw-redirect" title="Plymouth Devonport">Plymouth Devonport</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />28 February 1974 – 16 March 1992</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Joan_Vickers" class="mw-redirect" title="Joan Vickers">Joan Vickers</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Jamieson_(British_politician)" title="David Jamieson (British politician)">David Jamieson</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Sutton" class="mw-redirect" title="Plymouth Sutton">Plymouth Sutton</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />31 March 1966 – 8 February 1974</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Fraser_(Plymouth_Sutton_MP)" title="Ian Fraser (Plymouth Sutton MP)">Ian Fraser</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Clark" title="Alan Clark">Alan Clark</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">David Anthony Llewellyn Owen</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1938-07-02</span>) </span>2 July 1938<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 86)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Plympton" title="Plympton">Plympton</a>, Devon, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">Independent</a> (1990–present)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> (1960–1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">Social Democratic Party</a> (1981–1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK,_1988%E2%80%931990)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988–1990)">"Continuing" Social Democratic Party</a> (1988–1990)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;">Deborah Schabert</div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1968)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Sussex_College,_Cambridge" title="Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge">Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_London" title="King's College London">King's College London</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Signature</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="skin-invert" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Owen_signature.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="David Owen's signature"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/David_Owen_signature.svg/68px-David_Owen_signature.svg.png" decoding="async" width="68" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/David_Owen_signature.svg/102px-David_Owen_signature.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/63/David_Owen_signature.svg/137px-David_Owen_signature.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="175" data-file-height="205" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Companion_of_Honour" class="mw-redirect" title="Companion of Honour">CH</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_(United_Kingdom)" title="Privy Council (United Kingdom)">PC</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_College_of_Physicians" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians">FRCP</a></span></span> (born 2 July 1938)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a British politician and physician who served as <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Affairs" class="mw-redirect" title="Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs">Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> MP under <a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">James Callaghan</a> from 1977 to 1979, and later led the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">Social Democratic Party</a> (SDP). He was a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)" title="Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)">Member of Parliament</a> for 26 years, from 1966 to 1992. </p><p>Owen served as British <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Secretary" title="Foreign Secretary">Foreign Secretary</a> 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 "<a href="/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(SDP)" title="Gang of Four (SDP)">Gang of Four</a>" 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 <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a>, which was founded when the SDP merged with the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a>. Owen led the Social Democratic Party from 1983 to 1987, and the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK,_1988%E2%80%931990)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988–1990)">continuing SDP</a> from 1988 to 1990. Appointed as a <a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a> in 1992, he sat in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> as a <a href="/wiki/Crossbencher" title="Crossbencher">crossbencher</a> until March 2014, and sat as an "independent social democrat" until his retirement in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-NSMarch2014_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NSMarch2014-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a>'s attitude to the <a href="/wiki/European_Economic_Community" title="European Economic Community">European Economic Community</a>; he left the Labour <a href="/wiki/Shadow_cabinet" title="Shadow cabinet">Shadow cabinet</a> over the same issue later; and over <a href="/wiki/Unilateral_disarmament" title="Unilateral disarmament">unilateral disarmament</a> in November 1980 when <a href="/wiki/Michael_Foot" title="Michael Foot">Michael Foot</a> became Labour leader. He resigned from the Labour Party when it rejected <a href="/wiki/One_member,_one_vote" class="mw-redirect" title="One member, one vote">one member, one vote</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Owen was born in 1938 to <a href="/wiki/Welsh_people" title="Welsh people">Welsh</a> parents in <a href="/wiki/Plympton" title="Plympton">Plympton</a>, near the city of <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Devon" title="Devon">Devon</a>, England.<sup id="cite_ref-Harris1_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harris1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also has Swiss and Irish ancestry.<sup id="cite_ref-Harris1_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harris1-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He described Plymouth as, "a Cromwellian city, surrounded by royalists."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After schooling at <a href="/wiki/Mount_House_School,_Tavistock" title="Mount House School, Tavistock">Mount House School, Tavistock</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bradfield_College" title="Bradfield College">Bradfield College</a>, Berkshire,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he was admitted to <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Sussex_College,_Cambridge" title="Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge">Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge</a>, in 1956 to read Medicine, and obtained a <a href="/wiki/British_undergraduate_degree_classification#Lower_Second_Class_honours" title="British undergraduate degree classification">lower second</a>; he was made an honorary fellow of the college in 1977. He began clinical training at <a href="/wiki/St_Thomas%27s_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="St Thomas's Hospital">St Thomas's Hospital</a> in October 1959. </p><p>Owen was deeply affected by the <a href="/wiki/Suez_crisis" class="mw-redirect" title="Suez crisis">Suez crisis</a> of 1956, when <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Anthony Eden</a>'s Conservative government launched a military operation to retrieve the Suez Canal after <a href="/wiki/Nasser" class="mw-redirect" title="Nasser">Nasser</a>'s decision to nationalise it. At the time, aged 18, he was working in a labouring job before going to <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a>. Owen later told <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Harris_(journalist)" title="Kenneth Harris (journalist)">Kenneth Harris</a>: </p> <blockquote><p>[T]here was <a href="/wiki/Hugh_Gaitskell" title="Hugh Gaitskell">Gaitskell</a> ... criticizing Eden, and here were these men working alongside me, who should have been his natural supporters, furious with him. The <i><a href="/wiki/Daily_Mirror" title="Daily Mirror">Daily Mirror</a></i> backed Gaitskell, but these men were tearing up their <i>Daily Mirror</i>s 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 <a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Apostles" title="Cambridge Apostles">Apostles at Cambridge</a>. I suppose it underlay the appeasement years. Its modern equivalent is a resigned attitude to Britain's continuous post-war economic decline.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Medicine_and_politics">Medicine and politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Medicine and politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1960, Owen joined the <a href="/wiki/Vauxhall" title="Vauxhall">Vauxhall</a> branch of the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Fabian_Society" title="Fabian Society">Fabian Society</a>. He qualified as a doctor in 1962 and began work at St Thomas's Hospital. In 1964, he contested the <a href="/wiki/Torrington_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Torrington (UK Parliament constituency)">Torrington</a> seat as the Labour candidate against the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a> incumbent, losing in what was a traditional Conservative-<a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal</a> <a href="/wiki/Constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency">marginal</a>. He was <a href="/wiki/Neurology" title="Neurology">neurology</a> and psychiatric <a href="/wiki/Specialist_registrar" class="mw-redirect" title="Specialist registrar">registrar</a> at St Thomas's Hospital for two years, as assistant to Dr <a href="/wiki/William_Sargant" title="William Sargant">William Sargant</a>, then Research Fellow on the Medical Unit doing research into Parkinsonian trauma and neuropharmacology. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Member_of_Parliament">Member of Parliament</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Member of Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>At the next <a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">general election in 1966</a>, Owen returned to his home town and was elected Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for the <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Sutton" class="mw-redirect" title="Plymouth Sutton">Plymouth Sutton</a> <a href="/wiki/Constituency" class="mw-redirect" title="Constituency">constituency</a>. Aged 27, he was one of the youngest MPs in Parliament. In the <a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">February 1974 general election</a> Owen became Labour MP for the adjacent <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Devonport" class="mw-redirect" title="Plymouth Devonport">Plymouth Devonport</a> constituency, winning it from the Conservative incumbent <a href="/wiki/Dame" title="Dame">Dame</a> <a href="/wiki/Joan_Vickers" class="mw-redirect" title="Joan Vickers">Joan Vickers</a> by a slim margin (437 votes). He managed to hold on to it in the <a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979 general election</a>, again by a narrow margin (1001 votes). From 1981, however, his involvement with the SDP meant he developed a large personal following in the constituency and thereafter he was re-elected as an SDP candidate with safe margins. He remained as MP for Plymouth Devonport until his elevation to a <a href="/wiki/Peerage" title="Peerage">peerage</a> in 1992. </p><p>From 1968 to 1970, Owen served as <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_Under_Secretary_of_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary Under Secretary of State">Parliamentary Under Secretary of State</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Navy" title="Royal Navy">Navy</a> in <a href="/wiki/Harold_Wilson" title="Harold Wilson">Harold Wilson</a>'s first government. After Labour's defeat in the <a href="/wiki/1970_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1970 United Kingdom general election">1970 general election</a>, he became the party's Junior Defence Spokesman until 1972 when he resigned with <a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Roy Jenkins</a> over Labour's opposition to the European Community. On Labour's return to government in March 1974, he became Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health before being promoted to Minister of State for <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_(UK)" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Health (UK)">Health</a> in July 1974. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_Government">In Government</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: In Government"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As Minister of State for Health, Owen encouraged Britain to become "self-sufficient" in blood products such as <a href="/wiki/Factor_VIII" title="Factor VIII">Factor VIII</a>, a recommendation also promoted by the World Health Organisation.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was principally due to the risk of Hepatitis infection from high-risk blood donors overseas who were often paid and from "skid-row" locations.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-youtube.com_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-youtube.com-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David Owen has been outspoken that his policy of "Self-Sufficiency" was not put into place (although he was, himself, Minister of Health)<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and gave rise to the <a href="/wiki/Tainted_blood_scandal_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tainted blood scandal (United Kingdom)">Tainted Blood Scandal</a> which saw 5,000 British Haemophiliacs infected with Hepatitis C, 1,200 of those were also infected with HIV.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was later described in the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> as "the worst treatment disaster in the history of the National Health Service".<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 1976, Owen was appointed by the new prime minister of five months, <a href="/wiki/James_Callaghan" title="James Callaghan">James Callaghan</a>, as a Minister of State at the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Office">Foreign Office</a>, and was consequently admitted to the <a href="/wiki/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Privy Council of the United Kingdom">Privy Council of the United Kingdom</a>. Five months later, however, the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Secretary" title="Foreign Secretary">Foreign Secretary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Crosland" title="Anthony Crosland">Anthony Crosland</a>, died suddenly and Owen was appointed his successor. Aged 38, he became the youngest Foreign Secretary since <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Anthony Eden</a> in 1935. </p><p>In 1977, Owen was condemned by Black civil rights leader <a href="/wiki/Billy_Strachan" title="Billy Strachan">Billy Strachan</a> for refusing to prevent the hanging of two Black Bermudians in the British colony.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Foreign Secretary, Owen was identified with the Anglo-American plan for <a href="/wiki/Rhodesia" title="Rhodesia">Rhodesia</a>, which formed the basis for the <a href="/wiki/Lancaster_House_Agreement" title="Lancaster House Agreement">Lancaster House Agreement</a>, negotiated by his Tory successor, <a href="/wiki/Lord_Carrington" class="mw-redirect" title="Lord Carrington">Lord Carrington</a>, in December 1979. The Contact Group sponsored <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Council_Resolution_435" title="United Nations Security Council Resolution 435">UN Resolution 435</a> in 1978 on which Namibia moved to independence twelve years later. He wrote a book entitled <i>Human Rights</i> and championed that cause in Africa and in the Soviet Union. He later admitted to at one stage contemplating the assassination of <a href="/wiki/Idi_Amin" title="Idi Amin">Idi Amin</a> while Foreign Secretary but settled instead on backing <a href="/wiki/Julius_Nyerere" title="Julius Nyerere">President Nyerere</a> of <a href="/wiki/Tanzania" title="Tanzania">Tanzania</a> with money for arms purchases for his attack on <a href="/wiki/Uganda" title="Uganda">Uganda</a> which led to the exile of Amin to <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shortly after Labour's defeat in the <a href="/wiki/1979_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1979 United Kingdom general election">1979 general election</a> and following the <a href="/wiki/1979_Labour_Party_(UK)_Shadow_Cabinet_election" class="mw-redirect" title="1979 Labour Party (UK) Shadow Cabinet election">election of a new Shadow Cabinet</a> Callaghan moved Owen from the position of <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Foreign_Secretary" title="Shadow Foreign Secretary">Shadow Foreign Secretary</a> to <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Energy_Secretary" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Energy Secretary">Shadow Energy Secretary</a>, a move which was reported as being a demotion.<sup id="cite_ref-GH15061979_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GH15061979-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eighteen months after Labour lost power, the staunchly left-wing politician <a href="/wiki/Michael_Foot" title="Michael Foot">Michael Foot</a> was elected party leader, despite vocal opposition from Labour Party moderates (including Owen), sparking a crisis over the party's future. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Social_Democratic_Party_and_Liberal–SDP_Alliance"><span id="Social_Democratic_Party_and_Liberal.E2.80.93SDP_Alliance"></span>Social Democratic Party and Liberal–SDP Alliance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Social Democratic Party and Liberal–SDP Alliance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Owen-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/David_Owen-1.jpg/220px-David_Owen-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="304" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/David_Owen-1.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="239" data-file-height="330" /></a><figcaption>Owen in 1980</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dr_David_Owen,_1981.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Dr_David_Owen%2C_1981.jpg/220px-Dr_David_Owen%2C_1981.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="148" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Dr_David_Owen%2C_1981.jpg/330px-Dr_David_Owen%2C_1981.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Dr_David_Owen%2C_1981.jpg/440px-Dr_David_Owen%2C_1981.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="403" /></a><figcaption>Owen speaking in 1981</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Michael_Foot" title="Michael Foot">Michael Foot</a>'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. </p><p>Early in 1981, Owen and three other senior moderate Labour politicians – <a href="/wiki/Roy_Jenkins" title="Roy Jenkins">Roy Jenkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Rodgers_(politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Rodgers (politician)">Bill Rodgers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shirley_Williams" title="Shirley Williams">Shirley Williams</a> – announced their intention to break away from the Labour Party to form a "Council for Social Democracy". The announcement became known as the <a href="/wiki/Limehouse_Declaration" title="Limehouse Declaration">Limehouse Declaration</a> and the four as the "<a href="/wiki/Gang_of_Four_(SDP)" title="Gang of Four (SDP)">Gang of Four</a>". The council they formed became the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">Social Democratic Party</a> (SDP), with a collective leadership.<sup id="cite_ref-ChildsStorry2013_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ChildsStorry2013-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although Owen was one of the founding members of the party, he was not always enthusiastic about creating a <a href="/wiki/Schism" title="Schism">schism</a> on the centre-left, saying to the <i><a href="/wiki/Glasgow_Herald" class="mw-redirect" title="Glasgow Herald">Glasgow Herald</a></i> in January 1981 that he felt "haunted by the possibility that, if the Labour Party splits, the centre left will never again form the Government in Britain".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Twenty-eight other Labour MPs and one Conservative MP (<a href="/wiki/Christopher_Brocklebank-Fowler" title="Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler">Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler</a>) joined the new party. In late 1981, the SDP formed the <a href="/wiki/SDP%E2%80%93Liberal_Alliance" title="SDP–Liberal Alliance">SDP–Liberal Alliance</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_(UK)" title="Liberal Party (UK)">Liberal Party</a> to strengthen both parties' chances in the UK's "<a href="/wiki/Plurality_voting_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Plurality voting system">first past the post</a>" electoral system. The alliance performed so well that for much of the early part of 1982, it appeared that it would become a centre-left coalition government at the next election. In 1982, uneasy about the Alliance, Owen challenged Jenkins for the leadership of the SDP, but was defeated by 26,256 votes to 20,864. In the following year's <a href="/wiki/1983_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1983 United Kingdom general election">general election</a>, the Alliance gained 25% of the vote, only slightly behind the Labour Party, but because of the <a href="/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting_system" class="mw-redirect" title="First-past-the-post voting system">first-past-the-post voting system</a>, it won only 23 out of 650 seats.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although elected, Jenkins resigned the SDP leadership and Owen succeeded to it without a contest among the six remaining SDP MPs. </p><p>In 1982, during the <a href="/wiki/Falklands_War" title="Falklands War">Falklands War</a>, Owen spoke at the <a href="/wiki/Bilderberg_meeting" class="mw-redirect" title="Bilderberg meeting">Bilderberg meeting</a> advocating sanctions against Argentina.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ironically, the success of the war ended any hope that SDP might have had of winning the 1983 election. The Tories were proving unpopular largely due to high unemployment and the <a href="/wiki/Early_1980s_recession" title="Early 1980s recession">early 1980s recession</a>. However, Britain's success in the conflict saw <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> and her Tory government surge back to the top of the opinion polls, and her position was strengthened further by the end of the year as the recession died down.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SDP_leadership">SDP leadership</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: SDP leadership"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <i><a href="/wiki/Spitting_Image" title="Spitting Image">Spitting Image</a></i>, the satirical puppet show, depicted the Liberal leader <a href="/wiki/David_Steel" title="David Steel">David Steel</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Mike_Hancock_(British_politician)" title="Mike Hancock (British politician)">Mike Hancock</a>, at <a href="/wiki/1984_Portsmouth_South_by-election" title="1984 Portsmouth South by-election">Portsmouth South</a> (1984), and <a href="/wiki/Rosie_Barnes" title="Rosie Barnes">Rosie Barnes</a>, at <a href="/wiki/1987_Greenwich_by-election" title="1987 Greenwich by-election">Greenwich</a> (1987). </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Miners%27_strike_of_1984%E2%80%9385" class="mw-redirect" title="Miners' strike of 1984–85">miners' strike of 1984–85</a>, with Owen and most of the SDP favouring a fairly tough line but the Liberals preferring compromise and negotiation. More significantly the Alliance had a dispute over the future of Britain's independent nuclear deterrent. Owen and the SDP favoured replacing <a href="/wiki/UGM-27_Polaris" title="UGM-27 Polaris">Polaris</a> with <a href="/wiki/Trident_(missile)" title="Trident (missile)">Trident</a> as a matter of some importance, whereas most Liberals were either indifferent to the issue or committed disarmers. The SDP favoured a radical <a href="/wiki/Social_market_economy" title="Social market economy">social market economy</a>, while the Liberals mostly favoured a more interventionist, <a href="/wiki/Corporatism" title="Corporatism">corporate</a> style approach. The cumulative effect of these divisions was to make the Alliance appear less credible as a potential government in the eyes of the electorate. </p><p>Moreover, Owen, unlike Jenkins, faced an increasingly moderate Labour Party under <a href="/wiki/Neil_Kinnock" title="Neil Kinnock">Neil Kinnock</a> and a dynamic Conservative government. The <a href="/wiki/1987_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1987 United Kingdom general election">1987 general election</a> 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. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Full_parties'_merger"><span id="Full_parties.27_merger"></span>Full parties' merger</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Full parties' merger"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1987 immediately after the election, the Liberal leader <a href="/wiki/David_Steel" title="David Steel">David Steel</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Social_democracy" title="Social democracy">social democracy</a> 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. </p><p>The Liberal Party and SDP merged to form the Social and Liberal Democrats (SLD) in March 1988, renamed the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Democrats_(UK)" title="Liberal Democrats (UK)">Liberal Democrats</a> in October 1989. </p><p>At the request of two of the remaining SDP MPs, <a href="/wiki/John_Cartwright_(UK_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="John Cartwright (UK politician)">John Cartwright</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rosie_Barnes" title="Rosie Barnes">Rosie Barnes</a>, Owen continued to lead a much smaller <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK,_1988%E2%80%931990)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK, 1988–1990)">continuing SDP</a>, with three MPs in total. The party polled well at its first election, its candidate coming a close second in the 1989 <a href="/wiki/1989_Richmond_(Yorks)_by-election" title="1989 Richmond (Yorks) by-election">Richmond by-election</a>, but thereafter a string of poor and ultimately disastrous by-election results followed, including coming behind the <a href="/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_Party" title="Official Monster Raving Loony Party">Official Monster Raving Loony Party</a> in the <a href="/wiki/May_1990_Bootle_by-election" class="mw-redirect" title="May 1990 Bootle by-election">Bootle by-election</a> of May 1990, prompting Owen to wind up the party in 1990. Owen blamed the SDP's demise on the reforms which had been taking place in the Labour Party since Kinnock's election as leader in 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some branches, however, continued to function using the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK,_1990)" class="mw-redirect" title="Social Democratic Party (UK, 1990)">SDP name</a>; <a href="/wiki/Bridlington" title="Bridlington">Bridlington</a>'s was still extant in 2006. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Richard_Holme,_Baron_Holme_of_Cheltenham" title="Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham">Lord Holme</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-SDP:_Political_allegiances_as_a_life_peer">Post-SDP: Political allegiances as a life peer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Post-SDP: Political allegiances as a life peer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/1992_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1992 United Kingdom general election">1992 general election</a> was made a <a href="/wiki/Life_peer" title="Life peer">life peer</a>, nominated by then Conservative Prime Minister, <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a>, with the title, <i><b>Baron Owen</b></i>, <i>of the City of <a href="/wiki/Plymouth" title="Plymouth">Plymouth</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Devon" title="Devon">County of Devon</a>.</i><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <a href="/wiki/Letters_Patent" class="mw-redirect" title="Letters Patent">Letters Patent</a> dated 30 June 1992. As a member of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a>, he is called "Lord Owen" and he sat as a <a href="/wiki/Crossbencher" title="Crossbencher">crossbencher</a> until 2014 (see below). Owen was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Plymouth University">Plymouth University</a> in 1992. </p><p>During the April 1992 election campaign, Owen writing in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Mail_on_Sunday" title="The Mail on Sunday">The Mail on Sunday</a></i> 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 <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative Party</a>, although the memoirs of at least three of <a href="/wiki/John_Major" title="John Major">John Major</a>'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 <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wyatt" title="Woodrow Wyatt">Woodrow Wyatt</a> on 18 December 1988 whether she would have Owen in her government if approached by him, <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> replied: "Well, not straight away. I don't think I would do it straight away. He was very good on the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland" title="Northern Ireland">Northern Ireland</a> terrorist business. He's wasting his life now. It's so tragic. He's got real ability and it ought to be used".<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In another conversation with Wyatt on 4 June 1990 Thatcher said Owen's natural home was the Conservative Party.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Owen was approached privately by <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a>, 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.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2007, it was reported in the British press that Lord Owen had met the new prime minister <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Brown" title="Gordon Brown">Gordon Brown</a> and afterwards had refused to rule out supporting Labour at the next general election.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> 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 <a href="/wiki/Hung_parliament" title="Hung parliament">hung parliament</a>. 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 <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Times" title="The Sunday Times">The Sunday Times</a></i> called Owen "the prophet of the coalition". </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/2011_United_Kingdom_Alternative_Vote_referendum" title="2011 United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum">2011 Alternative Vote referendum</a> he signed a letter in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> stating that he opposed AV but would continue to campaign for proportional representation.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Ed_Miliband" title="Ed Miliband">Ed Miliband</a>'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".<sup id="cite_ref-NSMarch2014_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NSMarch2014-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Owen later said he admired Miliband's "integrity" and "guts".<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the June 2017 general election, Owen made no political donation nationally although 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 did, however, make a personal donation to the Labour candidate in his former constituency of Plymouth Sutton & Devonport, <a href="/wiki/Luke_Pollard" title="Luke Pollard">Luke Pollard</a>, who successfully won the seat.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>However in March 2019, Owen said he would not support Labour, criticising Corbyn's leadership for its failure to "unequivocally" root out <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Labour_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Antisemitism in the Labour Party">antisemitism in the Labour Party</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_30-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2019, Owen warned that Labour would lose potentially 5 million Leave voters who supported them due to its stance for a second Brexit referendum, and said that Labour under Corbyn and <a href="/wiki/John_McDonnell" title="John McDonnell">John McDonnell</a> reminded voters of "the Labour Party of the 1980s". He also criticised McDonnell's push to change Labour's policy to a second referendum stance.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the subsequent December 2019 general election, true to Owen's warning, Labour lost 60 seats, including long time Labour seats in the <a href="/wiki/Red_wall_(British_politics)" title="Red wall (British politics)">red wall</a> which supported leaving the EU. </p><p>Owen retired from the House of Lords on 13 August 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Subsequent_international_role">Subsequent international role</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Subsequent international role"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Breakup_of_Yugoslavia" title="Breakup of Yugoslavia">Former Yugoslavia</a>, along with <a href="/wiki/Cyrus_Vance" title="Cyrus Vance">Cyrus Vance</a>, the former US Secretary of State as the UN co-chairman. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Private_Eye" title="Private Eye">Private Eye</a></i>, the British satirical magazine, playfully alluded towards Owen's legendary tendency towards self-destruction. "It's a lost cause", says the bubble emanating from Major's mouth. "I'm your man", says the bubble from Owen's mouth. The Labour Shadow Foreign Minister, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Cunningham" class="mw-redirect" title="Jack Cunningham">Jack Cunningham</a>, greeted Major's appointment of Owen in the British House of Commons by saying that the Prime Minister's choice "was regarded as somewhat eccentric by [MPs] and myself – he [Owen] is known for many qualities, but not as a mediator. Indeed he has Balkanised a few political parties himself."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some believe David Owen comes across badly in Adam Le Bor's book, <i>Milosevic: A Biography</i>: "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".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Owen became a joint author of the <a href="/wiki/Vance%E2%80%93Owen_plan" class="mw-redirect" title="Vance–Owen plan">Vance–Owen Peace Plan</a> (VOPP), in January 1993, which made an effort to move away from the presumption of ethnic partition.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to America's last ambassador to Yugoslavia, the Bosnian Government were ready to accept the VOPP, but unfortunately the <a href="/wiki/Clinton_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Clinton Administration">Clinton Administration</a> delayed in its support, thus missing a chance to get it launched.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The VOPP was eventually agreed in Athens in May 1993 under intense pressure by all parties including Bosnian Serb leader <a href="/wiki/Radovan_Karad%C5%BEi%C4%87" title="Radovan Karadžić">Radovan Karadžić</a> but then rejected later by the Bosnian-Serb Assembly meeting in Pale, after Karadžić insisted that the Assembly had the right to ratify the agreement. After Vance's withdrawal, Owen and <a href="/wiki/Thorvald_Stoltenberg" title="Thorvald Stoltenberg">Thorvald Stoltenberg</a> brokered the EU Action Plan of December 1993. They both helped the Contact Group of the US/UK/France/Germany and Russia to present its plan in the summer of 1994. </p><p>In early 1994, the <a href="/wiki/European_Parliament" title="European Parliament">European Parliament</a> voted by 160 votes to 90, with 2 abstentions, for Owen's dismissal, but he was supported by all 15 EU Member State governments. There was a perception in America that Owen was "not fulfilling his function as an impartial negotiator".<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Owen, however, was consistently supported by all 15 EU Member States and the German Presidency in July 1994 urged him to remain as did the French Presidency in January 1995. Owen was made a <a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Order_of_the_Companions_of_Honour" class="mw-redirect" title="Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour">Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour</a> for his services in the former Yugoslavia in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 1995, Lord Owen wrote to <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand" title="François Mitterrand">François Mitterrand</a> as <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_European_Union" title="President of the European Union">President of the European Union</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Carl_Bildt" title="Carl Bildt">Carl Bildt</a>. "Had I been younger, I would probably have resigned when the Americans ditched the Vance-Owen Peace Plan".<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Owen testified as a witness of the court in the <a href="/wiki/Trial_of_Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87" title="Trial of Slobodan Milošević">trial of Slobodan Milošević</a>, the former president of <a href="/wiki/FR_Yugoslavia" class="mw-redirect" title="FR Yugoslavia">FR Yugoslavia</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_political_commentary">Later political commentary</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Later political commentary"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <i>Sunday Times</i> 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". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Contaminated_blood_scandal">Contaminated blood scandal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Contaminated blood scandal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Tainted_blood_scandal_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Tainted blood scandal (United Kingdom)">tainted blood scandal</a>. Alleging maladministration in 2002<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he sought to bring about an inquiry into the matter and was joined in his efforts by former Solicitor General for England and Wales <a href="/wiki/Peter_Archer,_Baron_Archer_of_Sandwell" title="Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell">Lord Archer</a>, former Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Services <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Jenkin,_Baron_Jenkin_of_Roding" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding">Lord Jenkin</a> and others.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2009 the culmination of these efforts, the privately funded and independent "Archer Report" in which Lord Owen was heavily involved, published its findings<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was thwarted because it had no power to compel witnesses as it was not a statutory <a href="/wiki/Public_inquiry" title="Public inquiry">public inquiry</a>. Successive governments have refused to hold a public inquiry<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> into the matter and continue to withhold documentation on grounds of commercial interest.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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;<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Alistair_Burt" title="Alistair Burt">Alistair Burt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Civil_Service_(United_Kingdom)" title="Civil Service (United Kingdom)">Civil Service</a><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that this was done after prosecutions and jail sentences were brought against government officials in France.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2016 at a film-screening of the documentary <i>Bad Blood: A Cautionary Tale</i>, he dramatically ended a 15-minute speech on the subject proclaiming: "I have failed and I feel very miserable about it".<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2016, the Civil Service Commission refused a request to investigate Lord Owen's destroyed documents<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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".<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 10 May 2017 he featured in an episode of <i><a href="/wiki/BBC_Panorama" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Panorama">BBC Panorama</a></i> called "Contaminated Blood: The Search for the Truth".<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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".<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_Union_and_subsequent_support_for_Brexit">European Union and subsequent support for Brexit</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: European Union and subsequent support for Brexit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Owen had previously been a supporter of Britain's membership of the <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> (saying that he was "not a <a href="/wiki/Eurosceptic" class="mw-redirect" title="Eurosceptic">Eurosceptic</a>" and a "convinced European"), but in recent years has opposed what he sees as the increased <a href="/wiki/Federalisation" class="mw-redirect" title="Federalisation">federalisation</a> of the EU, citing examples such as a unified currency (the <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">euro</a>), a unified defence force and a unified foreign policy as "structure[s] for a <a href="/wiki/European_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="European Federation">United States of Europe</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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 <a href="/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">Euro</a> membership was off the agenda following the defeat of the EU Constitution in referendums in France and the Netherlands.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>He called for a referendum before Britain's ratification of the <a href="/wiki/Lisbon_treaty" class="mw-redirect" title="Lisbon treaty">Lisbon treaty</a>, and expressed concerns about proposals for the creation of a '<a href="/wiki/European_Rapid_Reaction_Force" class="mw-redirect" title="European Rapid Reaction Force">European Rapid Reaction Force</a>'. In February 2010, he wrote a pamphlet for the <a href="/wiki/Social_Market_Foundation" title="Social Market Foundation">Social Market Foundation</a> thinktank entitled "EU Social Market and Social Policy". Owen supports the referendum requirements within the <a href="/wiki/European_Union_Act_2011" title="European Union Act 2011">European Union Act 2011</a>. </p><p>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 <i>Europe Restructured</i>, 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. </p><p>In February 2016, he announced that he was backing <a href="/wiki/British_withdrawal_from_the_European_Union" class="mw-redirect" title="British withdrawal from the European Union">the UK leaving the EU</a> for the <a href="/wiki/2016_United_Kingdom_European_Union_membership_referendum" title="2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum">2016 referendum</a>, arguing that "There are many positive aspects to leaving the EU. ... It could be the spark we need to re-energise our nation: a challenge and an opportunity."<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has supported <a href="/wiki/Vote_Leave" title="Vote Leave">Vote Leave</a> and spoken at rallies against the <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_Trade_and_Investment_Partnership" title="Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership">Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership</a>, which Owen stated would put the <a href="/wiki/NHS" class="mw-redirect" title="NHS">NHS</a> in danger.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Owen also cited his support for Brexit due to his opposition to the concept of a <a href="/wiki/European_Federation" class="mw-redirect" title="European Federation">United States of Europe</a> and stated that the Eurozone was “broken”, condemning how the EU treated Greece during its debt crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_News_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_News-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Owen was interviewed in 2012 as part of <a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Parliament" title="The History of Parliament">The History of Parliament</a>'s oral history project.<sup id="cite_ref-HoPOwen_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HoPOwen-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BLOwen_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BLOwen-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ukraine">Ukraine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Ukraine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In February 2022 he signed a letter to the <i><a href="/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times">Financial Times</a></i>, alongside <a href="/wiki/Robert_Skidelsky" title="Robert Skidelsky">Robert Skidelsky</a> and others, about <a href="/wiki/Ukraine" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Enterprises_and_affiliations">Enterprises and affiliations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Enterprises and affiliations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Owen_at_a_march.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/David_Owen_at_a_march.JPG/220px-David_Owen_at_a_march.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/David_Owen_at_a_march.JPG/330px-David_Owen_at_a_march.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/David_Owen_at_a_march.JPG/440px-David_Owen_at_a_march.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="2880" /></a><figcaption>Owen at a march in <a href="/wiki/Limehouse" title="Limehouse">Limehouse</a> in 2014</figcaption></figure> <p>Lord Owen was chairman of Yukos International UK BV, a division of the former Russian petroleum company <a href="/wiki/Yukos" title="Yukos">Yukos</a>, from 2002 to 2005.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> and a member of the board of <a href="/wiki/Abbott_Laboratories" title="Abbott Laboratories">Abbott Laboratories</a>, a US healthcare company, from 1996 to 2011. He was non-executive chairman of Europe Steel Ltd and consultant to Epion Holdings, owned by <a href="/wiki/Alisher_Usmanov" title="Alisher Usmanov">Alisher Usmanov</a> until 2015. From 2009 to 2014 Lord Owen served on the board of Texas-based Hyperdynamics Corporation, an oil concern with an exclusive lease to an offshore area of the <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Guinea" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Guinea">Republic of Guinea</a> in west Africa..<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> He also served on the board of <a href="/wiki/Coats_Viyella" class="mw-redirect" title="Coats Viyella">Coats Viyella</a> from 1994 to 2001. </p><p>Owen was the Chancellor of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Liverpool" title="University of Liverpool">University of Liverpool</a>, 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 <i>Brain</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The concept of hubris syndrome has been analysed by Professor Gerald Russell.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He married Deborah Owen (née Schabert), an American <a href="/wiki/Literary_agent" title="Literary agent">literary agent</a>, in 1968. They have two sons and one daughter, Tristan, Gareth and Lucy.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (February 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Owen was a main character in <a href="/wiki/Steve_Waters" title="Steve Waters">Steve Waters</a>' 2017 play <i><a href="/wiki/Limehouse_(play)" title="Limehouse (play)">Limehouse</a></i>, which premiered at the <a href="/wiki/Donmar_Warehouse" title="Donmar Warehouse">Donmar Warehouse</a>; Owen was portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Tom_Goodman-Hill" title="Tom Goodman-Hill">Tom Goodman-Hill</a>, with Nathalie Armin playing his wife.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Selected publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 40em"> <ul><li>David Owen, <i>The Politics of Defence</i> (Jonathan Cape and Taplinger Pub. Co, 1972)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>In Sickness and in Health: the Politics of Medicine</i> (Quartet Books, 1976)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>Human Rights</i> (Jonathan Cape and W.W. Norton & Company, 1978)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>Face the Future</i> (Jonathan Cape and Praeger, 1981)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>A Future That Will Work</i> (Viking 1984, Praeger, 1985)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>A United Kingdom</i> (Penguin Books, 1986)</li> <li>David Owen to <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Harris_(journalist)" title="Kenneth Harris (journalist)">Kenneth Harris</a>, <i>Personally Speaking</i> (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>Our NHS</i> (Pan Books, 1988)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>Time to Declare</i> (Michael Joseph, 1992)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>Balkan Odyssey</i> (Victor Gollancz, Harcourt Brace 1995)</li> <li>David Owen, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071214025850/http://www.politicospublishing.co.uk/titles.php/itemcode/178"><i>The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power</i></a> (Politico's, 2007; updated edition 2012)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years</i> (Methuen, 2008; revised edition 2011) and "In Sickness and In Power. Illness in Heads of Government, Military and business leaders since 1900" (Methuen, 2016)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>Time to Declare: Second Innings</i> (Politico's, 2009) – revised and updated abridgement of <i>Time to Declare</i> and <i>Balkan Odyssey</i></li> <li>David Owen, <i>Nuclear Papers</i> (Liverpool University Press, 2009)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>Europe Restructured</i> (Methuen, 2012)</li> <li>David Owen, "The Health of the Nation. NHS in Peril" (Methuen, 2014)</li> <li>David Owen, <i>The Hidden Perspective: the Military Conversations 1906–1914</i> (Haus Publishing, 2014)</li> <li>David Owen, "Cabinet's Finest Hour. The Hidden Agenda of May 1940" (Haus Publishing, 2016)</li></ul> </div><p>• David Owen, <i>Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma. Two Hundred Years Of British–Russian Relations</i> (Haus Publishing, 2021) </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/dr-david-owen/index.html">"Dr David Owen (Hansard)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Hansard" title="Hansard">Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">10 May</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Parliamentary+Debates+%28Hansard%29&rft.atitle=Dr+David+Owen+%28Hansard%29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.parliament.uk%2Fhistoric-hansard%2Fpeople%2Fdr-david-owen%2Findex.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Owen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-NSMarch2014-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-NSMarch2014_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-NSMarch2014_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEaton2014" class="citation web cs1">Eaton, George (2 March 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/03/david-owen-joins-milibands-big-tent-donation-labour-more-%C2%A37500">"David Owen joins Miliband's big tent with donation to Labour of more than £7,500"</a>. <i>New Statesman</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Instead, the imports, particularly from the US, and including those tainted by HIV or hepatitis, continued – without his knowledge, he said.</i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Haemophiliac+HIV+tragedy+%E2%80%B2needless%E2%80%B2&rft.date=2001-08-03&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F1%2Fhi%2Fhealth%2F1470755.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Owen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYoule2016" class="citation web cs1">Youle, Emma (5 October 2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/health/medics_knew_risk_of_hiv_infected_blood_given_to_patients_at_royal_free_hospital_1_4724457">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>'Medics knew risk of HIV-infected blood' given to patients at Royal Free Hospital"</a>. <i>Ham & High</i>. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 February</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=WhatsOnStage.com&rft.atitle=David+Tennant%2C+Roger+Allam+and+more+at+Limehouse+opening+night&rft.date=2017-03-09&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whatsonstage.com%2Flondon-theatre%2Fnews%2Fphotos-limehouse-opening-david-tennant-roger-allam_43079.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Owen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHarris1988" class="citation book cs1">Harris, Kenneth (1988). <i>David Owen: Personally Speaking</i>. Pan Books Ltd. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-330-30608-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-330-30608-1"><bdi>0-330-30608-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=David+Owen%3A+Personally+Speaking&rft.pub=Pan+Books+Ltd&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=0-330-30608-1&rft.aulast=Harris&rft.aufirst=Kenneth&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADavid+Owen" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_Owen&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 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related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:David_Owen" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:David Owen">David Owen</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Hansard" title="Hansard">Hansard</a></i> 1803–2005: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/dr-david-owen">contributions in Parliament by David Owen</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100411063025/http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/colldescs/owen/index.htm">The David Owen Archive</a> University of Liverpool (Archived)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_2527000/2527629.stm">David Owen resigns as SDP leader</a> BBC News <i>On This Day</i>,</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100513040744/http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/david-owen/27142">Lord Owen</a> House of Lords (Archived)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/05/interview-coalition-labour">The NS Interview: David Owen</a> New Statesman, 4 May 2010</li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #cccccc"><a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Parliament of the United Kingdom">Parliament of the United Kingdom</a> </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Fraser_(Plymouth_Sutton_MP)" title="Ian Fraser (Plymouth Sutton MP)">Ian Fraser</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament<br />for <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Sutton" class="mw-redirect" title="Plymouth Sutton">Plymouth Sutton</a> </b><br /><a href="/wiki/1966_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="1966 United Kingdom general election">1966</a> – <a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United Kingdom general election">1974</a> </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Clark" title="Alan Clark">Alan Clark</a></div> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Joan_Vickers" class="mw-redirect" title="Joan Vickers">Joan Vickers</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Member of Parliament<br />for <a href="/wiki/Plymouth_Devonport" class="mw-redirect" title="Plymouth Devonport">Plymouth Devonport</a> </b><br /><a href="/wiki/February_1974_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="February 1974 United 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text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_Energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Shadow Secretary of State for Energy">Shadow Secretary of State for Energy</a> </b><br />1979–1980 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Merlyn_Rees" title="Merlyn Rees">Merlyn Rees</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #FFBF00;">Party political offices </th></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b>New office</b> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> Deputy Leader of the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(UK)" title="Social Democratic Party (UK)">Social Democratic Party</a> </b><br />1982–1983 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;"><b>Position abolished </b> </td></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/John_Simon,_1st_Viscount_Simon" title="John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon">Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Hoare,_1st_Viscount_Templewood" title="Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood">Hoare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Wood,_1st_Earl_of_Halifax" title="Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax">Halifax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Bevin" title="Ernest Bevin">Bevin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herbert_Morrison" title="Herbert Morrison">Morrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Eden" title="Anthony Eden">Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Macmillan" title="Harold Macmillan">Macmillan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Selwyn_Lloyd" title="Selwyn Lloyd">Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alec_Douglas-Home" title="Alec Douglas-Home">Douglas-Home</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rab_Butler" title="Rab Butler">Butler</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/Offences_Against_the_Person_Act_1837" title="Offences Against the Person Act 1837">Offences Against the Person Act 1837</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Offences_Against_the_Person_Act_1861" title="Offences Against the Person Act 1861">Offences Against the Person Act 1861</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Infant_Life_(Preservation)_Act_1929" title="Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929">Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Criminal_Justice_Act_(Northern_Ireland)_1945" title="Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945">Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abortion_Act_1967" title="Abortion Act 1967">Abortion Act 1967</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Human_Fertilisation_and_Embryology_Act_1990" title="Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990">Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Ireland_(Executive_Formation_etc)_Act_2019" title="Northern Ireland (Executive Formation etc) Act 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title="Stella Browne">Stella Browne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dora_Russell" title="Dora Russell">Dora Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_Jenkins" title="Alice Jenkins">Alice Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Malleson" title="Joan Malleson">Joan Malleson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frida_Laski" title="Frida Laski">Frida Laski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ian_MacGillivray" title="Ian MacGillivray">Ian MacGillivray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dugald_Baird" title="Dugald Baird">Dugald Baird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Vernon_Hubble" class="mw-redirect" title="Douglas Vernon Hubble">Douglas Vernon Hubble</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Cole_(sexologist)" title="Martin Cole (sexologist)">Martin Cole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vera_Houghton" title="Vera Houghton">Vera Houghton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Houghton" class="mw-redirect" title="Douglas Houghton">Douglas Houghton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diane_Munday" title="Diane Munday">Diane Munday</a></li> 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