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Mr John Murray is a former MP for Leeds West.

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Former MP for Leeds West

Entered the House of Commons on 14 December 1918 — General election

Left the House of Commons on 16 November 1923 — General election

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Thomas Harvey
• Herbert Gladstone

Future MPs in this constituency

• Thomas Stamford
• Samuel Adams
• Thomas Stamford
• Charles Pannell
• Joseph Dean
• Michael Meadowcroft
• John Battle
• Rachel Reeves

Recent appearances

• Orders of the Day — Supply.: Class Ii. 26 Jul 1923

  I should like to offer a few observations in the course of which I hope to keep within the ruling of the Chair. I intend dealing with the broader aspects of the work of the Board of Trade. I think the House must take serious notice of the present condition of the country as represented by the speech of the hon. Member for Linlithgow (Mr. Shinwell) and the hon. Member for Central Cardiff (Mr....

• Orders of the Day — Supply.: Class Ii. 26 Jul 1923

  I have sat here very silently, and have listened without interrupting a single speaker on that bench, and I ask hon. Members to extend the same courtesy to me. This House is getting into such a condition that one cannot ask a rhetorical question without an answer being roared at him from those benches. Can any hon. Member say how the substitution of the State for the private undertaker is...

• Orders of the Day — Supply.: Class Ii. 26 Jul 1923

  I was not so very sure myself that I was in order, but speakers on the benches above the Gangway have been allowed to sing the praises of the substitution of the State for private enterprise as a means of helping the country in its troubles, and I thought it open to me to contradict them. Anyway, I have contradicted them; I have given them a flat contradiction, and that is the only answer...

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