1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Leicester North West Constituency – Biography of Janner

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Leicester North West

CANDIDATE : Janner

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. B. Janner, who was born in 1892, is a solicitor. He sat in the last Parliament as member for the old West division of Leicester, which he won in 1945 from National Labour. He had been Liberal M.P. for Whitechapel from 1931 to 1935, but joined the Labour Party in 1936. He is president of the Association of Jewish Friendly Societies : chairman of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland ; and vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.

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