Tom Horabin (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas Lewis Horabin (1896 - 26 April 1956) was a British Liberal politician who defected to the Labour Party.Horabin was educated at Cardiff High School and became a civil servant and later a business consultant.Following the death of Liberal Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Francis Acland in 1939, Horabin was selected by North Cornwall Liberals to defend the marginal seat at the following by-election. Along with his party leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, he was a vocal opponent of Chamberlain's Nazi appeasement policy. This issue was central to the debate in the by-election. He was also a strong advocate, along with Sir Stafford Cripps, of a Popular Front of left-of-centre parties coming together to defeat the Conservative led National government. He won the election, increasing the Liberal majority in a straight fight with the Conservatives, and continued to hold the seat until 1950.