Word: riddiough
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Labor Party was equally complacent: it read out Manchester's Laborite Alderman and former Mayor Joe Toole for violating the Party truce, entering Skipton's race as an Independent. The local Conservatives put up a Party worker, 61-year-old Harry Riddiough. Socialistic Sir Richard Acland's up-&-coming Common Wealth Party entered young (31) Lieut. Hugh Lawson of the Royal Engineers...
...result: Lawson, 12,222; Riddiough, 12,001; (Toole also ran.) All Britain snapped to attention; very definitely, Skipton had jolted Winston Churchill's entire wartime Coalition (Conservative, Labor, Liberals). Said Lord Rothermere's ultra-Conservative London Daily Mail: "The appeal of the official [Coalition] nominee is to the past, whereas the country is looking to the future. . . . [Lawson] represents the Services, the technicians of this new age and the aspirations of the younger generation for the postwar world." The Times murmured: "It would be foolhardy for supporters of the Coalition to treat the verdict of Skipton...
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