Lord David Owen was a Member of Parliament for Plymouth for 26 years from 1966-92. Under Labour Governments, he served as Navy Minister, Health Minister and Foreign Secretary. He was co-founder of the Social Democratic Party established in 1981 and its Leader from 1983-87 and 1988-90. He currently sits in the House of Lords as an independent Social Democrat.

From 1992-95 Lord Owen served as EU peace negotiator in the former Yugoslavia. From 1999-2005, he was Chairman of New Europe, an organization that successfully campaigned for the UK to stay outside the eurozone while remaining a member of the EU. But with the EU increasingly becoming dysfunctional he campaigned in the 2016 referendum for the UK to leave the EU. He is author of

He is author of In Sickness and In Power: Illness in Heads of Government, Military and Business Leaders since 1900 (revised edition 2016); The Health of the Nation. NHS in Peril (2014);The Hidden Perspective. The Military Conversations 1906-1914 (2014)and Cabinet’s Finest Hour. The Hidden Agenda of May 1940 (2016).