Background
BOOTH, Albert was born on May 28, 1928. Son of Albert Henry Booth and Janet Mathieson.
BOOTH, Albert was born on May 28, 1928. Son of Albert Henry Booth and Janet Mathieson.
Booth was educated at Marine School, South Shields and Rutherford College of Technology (Northumbria University).
Early He was a design draughtsman. He served as a councillor on Tynemouth Council 1962-1965. Parliamentary Booth contested Tynemouth in 1964.
He also acted as the Labour Party"s national Treasurer between 1983-1984.
After boundary changes, his seat was renamed Barrow and Furness, for the 1983 General Election but despite a 1979 majority of 7,741 he lost it to the Conservative Cecil Franks. This has often been attributed to Labour"s unilateralist policy of nuclear disarmament, and Booth himself identified with that, leading a Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament march through his constituency.
However, his constituents were reliant on the defence industries, particularly shipbuilding, and this led to one of Labour"s most unexpected defeats of the election.
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He was Member of Parliament for Barrow-in-Furness from 1966 to 1983, and was Secretary of State for Employment from 1976 to 1979 serving under James Callaghan.
Married Joan Amis in 1957.