Ben Ford (politician)
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Benjamin Thomas Ford (born 1 April 1925), known as Ben Ford, is a British politician.
Ford was an electronic fitter-wireman and was a councillor on Clacton Urban District Council 1959-62 and an alderman of Essex County Council 1959-65. He was election agent for Harwich in 1959 and was president of that Constituency Labour Party for seven years. Married Vera Ada Fancett 1950. Three children. Anthony,Paula, Ivan.
Ford was elected Labour Party Member of Parliament for Bradford North at the 1964 general election. In 1983, he was deselected as the Labour candidate in favour of Pat Wall, and subsequently stood in the 1983 general election as an independent Labour candidate. Ford polled 9% of the vote, which split Labour support and may have helped the Conservative candidate Geoffrey Lawler to win. By the early 1990s he had joined the Liberal Democrats.
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- Times Guide to the House of Commons, 1966 & 1983
- Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page
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| Preceded by William Taylor |
Member of Parliament for Bradford North 1964–1983 |
Succeeded by Geoffrey Lawler |
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