Subject File: Attempts to Return to Parliament
- Reference No:
- U DPM/1/3
- Dates:
- 16 Apr 1968-15 Oct 1975
- Description:
- File contains correspondence relating to Platts-Mills attempts to secure re-election as an MP. Following his expulsion from the Labour Party in 1948 whilst serving as an MP, he finished his term as an Independent Labour MP but failed to be re-elected in 1951. Correspondence relates to attempts from the 1960s to gain nominations as a parliamentary candidate for various Labour affiliated organisations in several London constituencies. Correspondence records approaches made to the following: Transport and General Workers Union; London Co-operative Society; National Union of Railwaymen; Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union.
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
-
Records of John Platts-Mill QC
