1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bristol South East Constituency – Biography of Cripps

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bristol South East

CANDIDATE : Cripps

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Sir Stafford Cripps, K.C., Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1947, is 61, and has represented the division since 1931. Son of the Labour peer Lord Parmoor—a former Conservative M.P. —he was educated at Winchester and University College, London; was called to the Bar in 1913, took silk in 1927, and was appointed Solicitor-General in 1931, before he had a seat in Parliament. He was expelled from the Labour Party for his association with the ” United Front” movement, and for six years remained ” in the wilderness.” After the outbreak of war he went as Ambassador to Moscow, and later was Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Commons, Minister of Aircraft Production, President of the Board of Trade, and Minister for Economic Affairs. Early in 1942 he was sent to India by Mr. Churchill to seek agreement on constitutional reform. In 1946 he led the Cabinet mission to India which paved the way to Indian independence.

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