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Mr Frank Griffith is a former MP for Middlesbrough West.

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Former MP for Middlesbrough West

Entered the House of Commons on 7 March 1928 — unknown

Left the House of Commons in 1940 — unknown

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Walter Thomson

Future MPs in this constituency

• Harcourt Johnstone
• Don Bennett
• Geoffrey Cooper
• Jocelyn Simon
• Jeremy Bray
• John Sutcliffe

Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL. 6 Aug 1940

  Is it not the case that the right hon. Gentleman is now putting before us the real essence of what we have to discuss? Yet none of that is in the Bill. If this Bill is passed, the right hon. Gentleman can do what he has just indicated, but he can also do a great variety of other things.

• Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL. 6 Aug 1940

  The right hon. Gentleman the Member for Keighley (Mr. Lees-Smith) claimed that the Bill would secure the substitution of civil courts for military courts. I do not know where he got that idea. He cannot have got it from the Bill, but he may have got it from the right hon. Gentleman's explanation. Our whole difficulty is that the Bill and the right hon. Gentleman's speech are so different....

• Orders of the Day — EMERGENCY POWERS (DEFENCE) (No. 2) BILL. 6 Aug 1940

  None of this is in the Bill.

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