Former MP for Derbyshire Western
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It is not often that I intervene in Debates in this House, and I should not have intervened today if I had not heard three or four speeches from the other side of the House. I have heard Toryism in varying degrees in the mining districts of Derbyshire, and in the other part of Derbyshire four years ago in a by-election but I have never heard such utter nonsense about the conduct of elections...
If, by my remarks, I am getting under the skin of the hon. Member for Ashford (Mr. E. P. Smith), I may get a little deeper before I have said all that I am going to say about county constituencies. I sit for a county constituency 60 miles long and 30 miles wide. Two-thirds of my constituency is owned by two dukes, which makes it all the worse. It is remarkable, at a time of a by-election or...
I may be a Member for a Yorkshire Division next time.
Former MP for Derbyshire Western
Entered the House of Commons on 17 February 1944 — unknown
Left the House of Commons on 3 February 1950 — General election
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