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that May, opposing any reductions in the rate of house building and highlighting the breaking of an election pledge by the Labour government.
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in the Labour government; this was a safe Labour constituency but it gave Hughes-Young much experience of fighting an election campaign.
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Elizabeth Blakiston-Houston, also from Northern Ireland. He fought against Italy in
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gave Hughes-Young a hereditary peerage in his resignation honours list. He took the title
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and the Deputy
Speaker. It did not harm his career as in March 1962 he was promoted to be
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Ministers in the
Macmillan and Douglas-Home governments, 1957–1964
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to the
Minister of State, Board of Trade for some months in 1956.
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Hughes-Young was the son of
Brigadier-General Henry Young, a
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Coat of arms of
Michael Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens
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on an exchange programme; in 1935 he was seconded to the
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Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
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Michael Henry Colin Hughes-Young, 1st Baron St Helens
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379:"The Times House of Commons 1951"
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215:Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962
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366:"Who Was Who", A & C Black
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