Date:1922
Description:Independent candidate Norman Tiptaft here invites the voters to attend a rally at Canterbury Road Schools. Tiptaft had been a councillor for Handsworth since 1919, which he hoped might give him an advantage over his opponent Oliver Locker-Lampson, who had been selected as the Conservative candidate to replace their retiring MP. The "Current situation" is now generally condensed to be the economic slump in the UK that had taken place.
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David Lloyd George's Coalition Government had endured after the First World War winning the 1918 General ...
Commander Lampson was the Conservative candidate for the 1922 General Election. The sitting MP Ernest ...
In this letter to the voters Lampson seeks to establish his credentials as a worthy candidate. Lampson's ...
Here he outlines his key issues for the election in a series of bullet points: More Allotments Less ...
Tiptaft had unsuccessfully contended the 1918 General Election as an Independent candidate, losing to ...
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Donor ref:LSH/ B'ham Parliamentary Elections 1918-22 LFF76.8 (14/5593)
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