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Reginald Yarnitz Freeson
Member of Parliament for Brent East Willesden East (1964–February 1974)
In office 15 October 1964 – 18 May 1987
Preceded by
Trevor Skeet
Succeeded by
Ken Livingstone
Personal details
Born
(1926-02-24)24 February 1926 St Pancras, London, England
Died
9 October 2006(2006-10-09) (aged 80) Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Political party
Labour
Reginald Yarnitz Freeson (24 February 1926 – 9 October 2006) was a British Labour politician. He was a Member of Parliament for 23 years, from 1964 to 1987, for Willesden East and later Brent East, with 14 years on the front bench. He became a junior minister in the Ministry of Power in 1967, and then led his party on housing policy for 10 years, from 1969 to 1979, serving as Minister of State for Housing from 1969 to 1970 and then again from 1974 to 1979, and being his party's housing spokesman in the intervening period. He continued as health and social security spokesman until 1981. His soft-left opinions made him vulnerable to the hard left in the early 1980s, and he was deselected in 1985, leaving Parliament at the 1987 general election to be succeeded by hard-leftwinger and future London mayor Ken Livingstone.
Reginald Yarnitz Freeson (24 February 1926 – 9 October 2006) was a British Labour politician. He was a Member of Parliament for 23 years, from 1964 to...
failed to apply for the candidacy in time, and so the incumbent centrist RegFreeson was once more selected as Labour candidate for Brent East. A subsequent...
Treasury 1959 Harry Howarth Labour Party Trevor Skeet Willesden East 1959 RegFreeson Labour Party Colin Turner Woolwich West 1959 Bill Hamling Labour Party...
of the anti-fascist magazine Searchlight in the mid-1960s, along with RegFreeson, Joan Lestor, Maurice Ludmer and others. Gable and Ludmer remained active...
of the 1960s and 1970s: The Lord Barnett, Edmund Dell, John Diamond, RegFreeson, The Baroness Gaitskell, Myer Galpern, Gerald Kaufman, The Lord Lever...
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the February General Election, losing badly to the sitting Labour MP RegFreeson in what was later described as a "gesture of principle". In 1976, assisted...
family bequest he was able to start work on the five figures. His friend RegFreeson, then leader of Brent Council, helped him find a home for them in Gladstone...
Aldermaston March and led a revival of the march in 1972.[citation needed] RegFreeson was one of five Labour MPs on the first Aldermaston March.[citation needed]...
of Israel, Dazed Magazine, Jewish Journal (Los Angeles), Jewish News RegFreeson (24 February 1926 – 9 October 2006), Labour politician of Russian Jewish...
Odhams' Illustrated magazine in 1950. Writers for the News Review included RegFreeson and a young Peter Dacre. "News Review and Cavalcade from 1936". magforum...
failed to apply for candidacy in time, and so the incumbent centrist RegFreeson was once more selected as Labour candidate for Brent East. A subsequent...
(born 1933) 5 October – Jennifer Moss, actress (born 1945) 9 October RegFreeson, politician (born 1926) Paul Hunter, snooker player (born 1978) 11 October...
Orbach Member of Parliament for Willesden East 1959–1964 Succeeded by RegFreeson Preceded by Brian Parkyn Member of Parliament for Bedford 1970–1983 Constituency...
Labour Widnes James MacColl Labour Wigan Alan Fitch Labour Willesden East RegFreeson Labour Willesden West Laurence Pavitt Labour Co-operative Wimbledon Cyril...
2018) 22 February – Kenneth Williams, actor (died 1988) 24 February – RegFreeson, politician (died 2006) 1 March Barbara Clegg, actress and scriptwriter...
Borough Council in 1972, holding the role until 1974. She supported RegFreeson in the 1983 United Kingdom general election. Forbes was made a Commander...
The Guardian. Retrieved 2 July 2018. Roth, Andrew (11 October 2006). "RegFreeson". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2018. Roth, Andrew (27 October 2006)...
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and, from October, PPS to RegFreeson, minister of housing and construction in the Department of the Environment...
Widnes James MacColl Labour Wigan Alan Fitch Labour Willesden East Reginald Freeson Labour Willesden West Laurence Pavitt Labour Wimbledon Michael Havers Conservative...
Conservative Brecon and Radnor Tom Hooson Conservative Brent, East Reginald Freeson Labour Brent, North Rhodes Boyson Conservative Brent, South Laurence Pavitt...
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