biography
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| (1880–1954)
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He studied at Leeds, and was a wartime member of Lloyd George's secretariat. He became an MP in 1922 and deputy leader of the parliamentary Labour Party in 1935, showing himself an outspoken critic of ‘appeasement’. In the 1940 government he was minister without portfolio, and 1945 became Lord Privy Seal, but resigned from the government in 1947. He remained treasurer of the Labour Party, of whose national executive he became chairman in 1953. He did much to shape Labour's social policies. |
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