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Mr Gilbert Mitchison is a former MP for Kettering.

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Former MP for Kettering

Entered the House of Commons on 5 July 1945 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 31 August 1964 — unknown

Previous MPs in this constituency

• John Profumo
• John Eastwood
• Samuel Perry
• Mervyn Manningham-Buller
• Samuel Perry
• Owen Parker
• Alfred Waterson

Future MPs in this constituency

• Geoffrey De Freitas
• William Homewood
• Roger Freeman
• Phil Sawford
• Philip Hollobone
• Rosie Wrighting

Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL [Lords]: Clause 1. — (Repeal of Obsolete, &C., Enactments.) 24 Jul 1964

  May I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman the Solicitor-General one very simple question? Why were not these Acts repealed long ago?

• Orders of the Day — STATUTE LAW REVISION BILL [Lords]: Clause 1. — (Repeal of Obsolete, &C., Enactments.) 24 Jul 1964

  By leave, may I ask the right hon. and learned Gentleman whether he remembers that for many years there stood outside the entrance to the Estate Duty Office in the Strand two large notice boards, each of which said, so appropriately, "Dead Slow"? Is not the machinery set up to deal with this kind of thing functioning rather slowly? I should not have thought that the nature of the Acts which...

• STATUTE LAW REVISION (SCOTLAND) BILL [Lords]: Clause 1. — (Repeal of Obsolete etc. Enactments.) 24 Jul 1964

  I understood that the language of this place was English and that we were in very doubtful order indeed if we started using foreign languages. In those circumstances, it seems to me that I am in considerable difficulty, because if I read out any of the titles of these Acts I should produce things which were no doubt well understood in the Scottish Office but which were not always quite clear...

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