Arthur Lewis (British politician)

Arthur William John Lewis (21 February 1917 – 25 June 1998) was a British Labour Party politician.

Arthur Lewis
Born
Arthur William John Lewis

21 February 1917
Died25 June 1998
NationalityBritish
OccupationBritish Labour Party politician

Biography

Lewis was educated at Borough Polytechnic and began work as a fitter with the City of London Corporation. He was an official of the National Union of General and Municipal Workers 1938–48. He signed the first trade union agreement with the catering industry and gained 20,000 new trade union members in the West End, London.

Lewis was Member of Parliament (MP) for Upton from 1945 to 1950, for West Ham North from 1950 to 1974, and then for Newham North West.

In 1983, after 38 years as an MP, Lewis was deselected as Labour candidate by his local constituency Labour Party, which he said had become "100 per cent Trotskyist, Militant Tendency, Communist and IRA supporters".[1] By this time he was refusing to attend local party meetings or hold "advice surgeries" for his constituents.

He was replaced as Labour candidate by the future minister Tony Banks. Lewis stood as an Independent Labour candidate at the 1983 election, coming fourth with 11% of the vote behind the winner, Banks.

Notes
  1. Richard Heffernan and Mike Marqusee, Defeat from the Jaws of Victory: Inside Kinnock's Labour Party (London: Verso, 1992) p. 18.
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References
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Benjamin Walter Gardner		 Member of Parliament for Upton
1945–1950		 constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for West Ham North
1950–February 1974		 constituency abolished
New constituency Member of Parliament for Newham North West
February 1974–1983		 Succeeded by
Tony Banks


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