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 | | Old Labour credentials were incongruous in 1997 and no credentials were older than Morrison's, the son of a Brixton policeman who had become secretary of the new London Labour Party in 1914, was Mayor of Hackney by 1919 and in 1922 was elected to the LCC for East Woolwich. |
 | | His first had been to Mandelson's grandmother, described by his biographers Bernard Donaghue and G.W. Jones (in Herbert Morrison: Portrait of a Politician, Wiedenfeld, 1973) as a frigid, disturbed waif who married the wrong man. However, this mismatch was the making of him: with no distractions at home, he threw himself into work. |
 | | Herbert Morrison had a clear vision that the purpose of the Festival of Britain was to "illustrate the British contribution to civilization, past, present and future, in arts, in science and technology, and in industrial design". |
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