Sir Philip Carter Goodhart (3 November 1925 – 5 July 2015) was a British

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politician, the son of Arthur Lehman Goodhart.

Biography

Goodhart attended the Hotchkiss School in

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. He contested Consett in 1950 whilst still a student at

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. He was elected

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for

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at a 1957 by-election, and served until his retirement in 1992. One of the unsuccessful candidates for the nomination in 1957 was the young

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. In his book ''Referendum'' (Tom Stacey Ltd, 1971) he argued that the referendum, then under discussion in the context of the United Kingdom (UK) joining the European Economic Community (EEC), could in fact serve to entrench constitutional safeguards that the UK then – as now – lacked, quoting

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's contribution to the debate on the Parliament Bill (later the

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): "In the referendum lies our hope of getting the sort of constitutional security which every other country but our own enjoys ..." (''Referendum'', ). He wrote the definitive account of the referendum campaign in 1975, ''Full-hearted Consent'', and also ''The 1922: The Story of the 1922 Committee'' (with Ursula Branston; Macmillan, 1973). He was a junior Northern Ireland minister (1979–1981) and a junior defence minister (1981). He was a member of the Founding Council of the

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at the

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. In 1950, he married Valerie Forbes Winant, niece of

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; they had seven children: Arthur, Sarah, David, Rachel, Harriet, Rebecca and Daniel. The couple lived in Whitebarn, Youlbury Woods, Oxford. He died in 2015, aged 89. One of his children is

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, director of the Demos thinktank and journalist for the '' Prospect'' magazine.

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