Early Day Motion·EDM 1496

CENTENARY OF ELECTION OF 29 LABOUR HON. MEMBERS LEADING TO THE FORMATION OF THE PARLIAMENTARY LABOUR PARTY

6 February 20061 Signature

Motion Text

after Westhoughton, add `and notes that J Burns (Battersea), first elected as a Labour MP in 1892 and a member of the Labour Representation Committee from 1900, accepted a ministerial post in 1906, becoming "the first working man in the Cabinet", but continued to sit as a Labour MP until 1918.'.