1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Hendon North Constituency – Biography of Pollitt

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Hendon North

CANDIDATE : Pollitt

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mrs. M. Pollitt, wife of Mr. H. Pollitt, who contested E. Rhondda in this election, won scholarships as a girl and became an L.C.C. teacher. During the General Strike she published the Party’s strike paper, and on being arrested and fined her teaching certificate was withdrawn. Since then she has been actively associated with political and social work, notably in Hendon where she lives.

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