Labour Party (UK) Councillors - Ben Greene, Stephen Twigg, Miranda Grell, Murad Qureshi, William Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson, Michael Lyons (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Ben Greene, Stephen Twigg, Miranda Grell, Murad Qureshi, William Jackson, 1st Baron Jackson, Michael Lyons, Geoffrey Mander, Tom Williams, Baron Williams of Barnburgh, Roger Barton, Reg Goodwin, Joseph Binns, Peggy Duff, Cyril Dumpleton, John Archer, Wilfrid Roberts, Mary Salisbury, Lady Mabel Fitzwilliam, Steve Reed, Ivor Owen Thomas, Bill Taylor, Bryn Davies, Dick Knowles, Martin Redmond, Pav Akhtar, Andrew Pakes, Kerron Cross, Neil Fletcher, Liz Davies, Raymond Challinor, Mabel Tylecote, Alex Hilton, Mo O'Toole, Peter Heathfield, Minnie Lansbury, Janey Buchan, Peggy Jay, Albert Bore, Helen Metcalf, Horace Barks, Jackie Drayton, Cliff Tucker, Michael Kelly, Alex Hargreaves, William Barefoot, Jan Wilson, Olive Gibbs, Ian Malcolm, Phil Kelly, Malcolm Bridge, Thomas Logie MacDonald, Bennie Abrahams, Mike Pye, Lincoln Beswick, Harriet Yeo, M. Afzal Khan, Mike Kinsey, Sue Murphy. Excerpt: Ben Greene (28 December 1901 - October 1978) was a British Labour Party politician and pacifist. He was interned during World War II because of his fascist associations and appealed his detention to the House of Lords. In the leading case of Liversidge v. Anderson, the House famously declined to interfere with ministerial discretion on matters of national security and refused to review his detention. Though born in Brazil with a mother who had been born a German national, Greene's family came to England in 1908. He attended Berkhamsted School where his uncle, Charles Greene, was headteacher and where his cousins, Graham Greene and Hugh Greene, also attended. He went up to Wadham College, Oxford, but became committed to the causes of the Labour Party and the Society of Friends (Quakers) and left without graduating. Until 1923 he worked with the Society of Friends, the Save the Children Fund and the American Relief Administration in hum...