Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, Baron Jay, PC (23 March 1907 – 6 March 1996) was a British Labour Party politician. Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... March 6 is the 65th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (66th in Leap years). ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ...

Educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, Jay became a Fellow of All Souls between 1930 and 1937. His early career was as an economics journalist working for The Times 1929-33, The Economist 1933-37, and the Daily Herald 1937-41, then as a civil servant in the Ministry of Supply and Board of Trade, from 1943 as personal assistant to Hugh Dalton. Winchester College is a boys independent school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. ... College name New College of St Mary Collegium Novum Oxoniensis/Collegium Sanctae Mariae Wintoniae Named after Mary, mother of Jesus Established 1379 Sister College Kings College Warden Prof. ... All Souls can refer to: All Souls Day All Souls College, Oxford All Souls Unitarian Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Times is a national newspaper published daily in the United Kingdom since 1785, and under its current name since 1788. ... The Economist is a weekly news and international affairs publication of The Economist Newspaper Ltd edited in London, UK. It has been in continuous publication since September 1843. ... The Daily Herald was a London newspaper. ... Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton, generally known as Hugh Dalton (1887-1962) was a British Labour Party politician, and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1945 to 1947. ...

Jay was elected member of Parliament for Battersea North in a 1946 by-election and held the seat until 1983. Alongside Evan Durbin and Hugh Gaitskell, he brought the thinking of John Maynard Keynes to the Labour Party, especially in relation to price determination, although influenced by the successful operation of rationing during the war his views later somewhat mellowed. He served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1947-1950, Financial Secretary to the Treasury from 1950-1951 and President of the Board of Trade from 1964 until being sacked in 1967. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1951. Battersea North was a parliamentary constituency in the then Metropolitan Borough of Battersea in South London. ... Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell (April 9, 1906 – January 18, 1963) was a British politician, leader of the Labour Party from 1955 until his death in 1963. ... John Maynard Keynes (right) and Harry Dexter White at the Bretton Woods Conference John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes, CB (pronounced canes, IPA ) (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946) was a British economist whose ideas, called Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well... The Labour Party has been, since its founding in the early 20th century, the principal political party of the left in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about various offices in the government of the United Kingdom. ... Financial Secretary to the Treasury is a junior Ministerial post in the UK Treasury. ... The President of the Board of Trade the title of a cabinet position in the United Kingdom government. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ...

In The Socialist Case in 1937 he had written: ‘in the case of nutrition and health, just as in the case of education, the gentleman in Whitehall really does know better what is good for people than the people know themselves.’ This expression was mercilessly exploited by the Conservatives and won a long-lasting notoriety; it was often misquoted as ‘the man in Whitehall knows best’, which was, as Jay often protested, exactly the opposite of his general conclusion.

He was opposed to the UK's entry into the European Economic Community and campaigned for a 'no' vote in the 1975 referendum. The European Community (EC), most important of three European Communities, was originally founded on March 25, 1957 by the signing of the Treaty of Rome under the name of European Economic Community. ...

Jay was created a life peer as Baron Jay, of Battersea in Greater London, in 1987. His first wife was the councillor Peggy Jay and their son is the economist Peter Jay. Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize in Economics winner. ... The Honourable Peter Jay (born 7 February 1937) is a British economist, broadcaster and diplomat. ...