Career
He stood unsuccessfully in the Fulham East constituency in 1947 and 1950. He had been adopted for the safe Conservative seat of Darwen early in 1951, but died later that year. His Times obituary was headed Intellectual Honesty and Independence.
He was opposed to appeasement of Mussolini (in Abyssinia) and Hitler, and was one of the two Conservative MPs (with Duff Cooper) to oppose the Munich agreement with Hitler in 1938.
He was opposed to the death penalty.