George Darling

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George Darling, Baron Darling of Hillsborough, PC (20 July 1905–18 October 1985) was a politician in the United Kingdom. He was Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hillsborough from 1950 to 1974.

Darling was educated at elementary school and Liverpool University, later attending Cambridge University where he graduated in economics. He was a journalist and Head of research and information of the Co-operative Wholesale Society from 1930 to 1937. He then joined the BBC reporting team and was their industrial correspondent from 1942 to 1949. He wrote several books on the co-operative movement.

Darling contested Macclesfield without success in 1935. He was elected for Hillsborough in 1950 and was a party spoksman in opposition on Board of Trade subjects and consumer protection. Following Labour's 1964 election victory, Darling became Minister of State at the Board of Trade, stepping down in 1968. He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1966.

Darling retired from the House of Commons at the February 1974 general election. In June of the same year, he was made a life peer as Baron Darling of Hillsborough, of Crewe in the County of Cheshire.

Darling was a member of the Council of the National Fund for Polio Research.