biography
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Morrison (of Lambeth), Herbert Stanley Morrison, Baron
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| lived:
| (1888–1965)
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| biography:
| British statesman, born in London, UK. Largely self-educated, he helped to found the London Labour Party, and became its secretary in 1915. As leader of the London County Council from 1934, he grouped together London's passenger transport system, and much of the credit for the ‘Green Belt’ was due to him. First elected an MP in 1923, in Churchill's war cabinet he was home secretary and minister of home security. A powerful figure in the post-war social revolution, he was deputy prime minister (1945–51), Lord President of the Council, and Leader of the House of Commons. In 1951 he became deputy Leader of the Opposition, but was defeated by Hugh Gaitskell in the contest for the leadership of the Labour Party in 1955. He was created a life peer in 1959. |
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