Allan Rogers, MP dubbed leader of Labour's 'yob tendency' by Private Eye – obituary

Allan Rogers, who has died aged 91, was an intelligent but truculent South Wales miner’s son who served on the Opposition front bench under his friend Neil Kinnock and then John Smith, but was too “Old Labour” for Tony Blair.

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