Derek Anthony Hatton was born on 17 January 1948 and is a British former politician, later a broadcaster, property developer and businessman.
21 Facts About Derek Hatton
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Derek Hatton gained national prominence as deputy leader of Liverpool City Council in the 1980s and was a member of the Trotskyist Militant group.
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Derek Hatton became a firefighter and later joined the Labour Party and Militant, a Trotskyist organisation then following an entryist strategy within the Labour Party.
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Derek Hatton joined the rate-capping rebellion in 1985 as the council refused to make a rate increase.
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Derek Hatton was expelled from the Labour Party in 1986 for belonging to Militant, which had earlier been found to be in breach of the Labour Party's constitution.
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Derek Hatton argued that Militant was a legitimate Marxist tendency within the Labour Party, but the National Executive Committee voted to expel him by twelve votes to six.
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In 1993, Derek Hatton was accused of corruption as deputy leader of Liverpool City Council.
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Derek Hatton presented the lunchtime phone-in on 105.4 Century FM when it launched in 1998, titled "The Degsy Debate".
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Derek Hatton was the subject of a BBC documentary, My Brilliant Career in 1996.
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Derek Hatton appeared on an episode of BBC panel show Have I Got News for You in 1993, alongside Conservative MP and panellist Edwina Currie, a Liverpudlian.
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In 2010, Derek Hatton appeared in Channel 4's Alternative Election Night Special episode of Come Dine with Me alongside Brian Paddick, Edwina Currie and Rod Liddle.
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Derek Hatton was a director of Rippleffect Studios Limited from 1999 to 2008 His son Ben Derek Hatton was a co-director.
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Derek Hatton made clear that he is no longer a Trotskyist, but maintains that he remains firmly on the left of the party, expressing his belief that Labour has to abandon New Labour ideology and return to its traditional values.
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Derek Hatton gave another interview in the same year to the Liverpool Daily Post in which he reasserted his intention to seek selection as a parliamentary Labour candidate for a constituency in Liverpool or elsewhere in the North West at some point in the future.
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On 28 May 2015, it emerged that Derek Hatton had attempted to rejoin the Labour Party on 9 May, two days after Labour's defeat in the 2015 general election.
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Derek Hatton's application was rejected by Iain McNicol, the party's general secretary.
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In September 2015, Derek Hatton endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election.
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Derek Hatton supported the campaign of Jeremy Corbyn to lead the Labour Party.
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However, the Labour Party denied this, insisting instead that Derek Hatton had been sent a membership card automatically but had not been permitted to join.
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Derek Hatton was suspended from the party on 20 February, just days after he was re-admitted, after an allegedly anti-Semitic tweet from 2012 came to light.
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In December 2020, newspapers reported that Derek Hatton was one of five men, including the Mayor of Liverpool, Joe Anderson, arrested as part of an investigation into building and development contracts in Liverpool.