Career
The constituency was divided in a boundary review for the 1950 general election, when he was returned as Member of Parliament for the new Bolton West constituency. At the 1951 general election he lost his seat to the Liberal candidate Arthur Holt. In July 1951, Lewis reported to the House of Commons Committee of Privileges to respond to charges he tried to use Parliamentary privilege to escape charges that he drove into a policeman on his way to Parliament.
Statements from witnesses said the Member of Parliament, who was late for a division hit the traffic officer three times.
The committee concluded that privilege for an Member of Parliament was not "above the ordinary restraints of law which apply to fellow citizens. They do not discharge the member from obligations to society, which apply to him as much and perhaps more closely in that capacity as they apply to other subjects of The Crown."
Lewis had borne a deep grudge against society osteopath Stephen Ward (Christine Keeler"s landlord), ever since Ward had introduced one of Lewis"s girlfriends to a lesbian contact, who lured her away from him.
On Christmas Eve 1962, Keeler was feeling angry about some small issue with Ward, and visited a Baker Street nightclub, just for someone to talk to By the purest chance, she met Lewis, and poured out the whole story of Profumo and the Soviet diplomat Ivanov.
Lewis was overjoyed at this opportunity to get Ward named as a national security risk, and also twist the facts to make it look as though he was living off immoral earnings.
When Ward committed suicide in mid-trial, Lewis celebrated with champagne.