Career
He contested Belper unsuccessfully at the 1924 general election, losing by over 4,000 votes to the sitting Conservative Party Member of Parliament Herbert Wragg. At the 1929 election he took the seat with a majority of 2,955, but at the 1931 general election Wragg retook the seat with a majority of nearly 8,000. He stood again at Belper in the 1935 general election but was again defeated.
Lees did not stand for Parliament again.
