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Sir Arthur Salter is a former MP for Ormskirk.

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Former MP for Ormskirk

Entered the House of Commons on 27 February 1937 — unknown

Left the House of Commons on 16 October 1953 — unknown

Also represented Oxford University

Previous MPs in this constituency

• Samuel Rosbotham
• Francis Blundell
• James Bell
• Arthur Stanley
• Arthur Forwood

Future MPs in this constituency

• William King-Hall
• Harold Wilson
• Ronald Cross
• Douglas Glover
• Harold Soref
• Robert Kilroy-Silk

Recent appearances

• Cotton Industry 30 Jul 1953

  I have very little time but perhaps enough, for a reason which I will mention in a moment. This has been a rather unusual and distinctive debate. It has been conducted before a select audience, though perhaps that is not so unusual. It has also had a very intimate character. The right hon. Member for Huyton (Mr. H. Wilson), who opened the debate, preceded my right hon. Friend in his present...

• Cotton Industry 30 Jul 1953

  We are, in a sense, in a half-way state of policy, as indeed the conditions of the world which affect this industry are in a middle position between the conditions which we faced during the war and immediately after the war, and what I might call normal peace conditions such as we had before the war. The right hon. Member for Huyton agreed that we are acting legally in what we are doing. He...

• Cotton Industry 30 Jul 1953

  If the hon. Member is asking in what sense I believe in the principle enunciated in that sentence, I would say that even if it is interpreted in the wider sense, if we are not thinking of today or tomorrow but of a permanent system, I still think that it represents good sense. The hon. Member raised the question of Empire cotton. As my right hon. Friend said, we realise that it is important...

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