Career
He served as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 1946 to 1950. In 1949 he intervened to delay Brian Close"s National Service so the 18-year-old Close could complete the cricket season playing for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. In 1950, he was appointed as Minister of Food, a key job in a time of rationing, and was appointed as a Privy Counsellor.
After his Bradford Central seat was abolished for the 1955 election, he ran in Bradford North and narrowly lost to the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament. He died in June 1956 aged 51.