119:. He focused his campaign on poor health and education for working-class people in the city, calling Birmingham a "rotten and benighted city", while also maintaining his focus on land reform. He came within 2,500 votes of unseating Chamberlain, and improved his vote again at the
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Labour Party voted not to expel
Dunstan; this led the national Labour Party to disaffiliate the branch and form a new one. Surprisingly, the CPGB decided Dunstan should run in
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97:. He took 16% of the vote and second place in a campaign notable for the large crowds who came to hear him speak. He also ran as the Labour candidate for the
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for the CPGB, describing himself as a "workers' candidate"; he gained the backing of several local Labour Party branches, and won 32% of the vote.
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Dunstan remained active in less high-profile roles in communist politics in
Birmingham until the end of
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Dunstan's wife died in 1921, and the following year, he married
Margaret MacCallum, a fellow doctor.
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In 1928, the Labour Party banned CPGB activists from holding joint membership. Despite this, the
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134:(CPGB). He tried to get the local Labour Party in Ladywood to re-adopt him for the
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and a medical doctor. He worked as a general practitioner, and was a member of
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Labour in the City: The
Development of the Labour Party in Manchester 1918-31
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Military personnel from the London
Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
85:(ILP). Through his membership of the ILP, he was adopted as the
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The
Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: The reform years, 1921-27
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77:, Dunstan served in Mesopotamia as a lieutenant with the
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Socialism in
Birmingham and the Black Country, 1850-1939
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Speak for
Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party
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Mosley and
British Politics 1918-32: Oswald’s Odyssey
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355:Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates
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19:For the Australian music journalist, see
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380:British Army personnel of World War I
16:British doctor and political activist
350:Independent Labour Party politicians
99:1919 Manchester Rusholme by-election
126:Early in 1924, Dunstan visited the
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14:
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370:Royal Army Medical Corps officers
299:Compendium of Communist Biography
157:; this was closer to his home in
132:Communist Party of Great Britain
237:Western Times Devon, 2 Jun 1914
43:doctor and political activist.
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345:British general practitioners
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46:Dunstan qualified as both a
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21:Robert Dunstan (journalist)
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151:Bethnal Green South West
83:Independent Labour Party
79:Royal Army Medical Corps
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360:Members of Gray's Inn
215:, vols.145-146, p.144
155:1929 general election
136:1924 general election
121:1923 general election
109:1922 general election
95:1918 general election
58:, unsuccessfully, in
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224:Ed. Robert C. Self,
168:. He died in 1963.
54:. He stood for the
39:(1877 – 1963) was a
311:Class Against Class
295:Dunstan Robert (Dr)
293:Graham Stevenson, "
199:George J. Barnsby,
117:Neville Chamberlain
113:Birmingham Ladywood
111:, Dunstan stood in
365:People from Fulham
91:Birmingham Moseley
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66:on a platform of
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32:Robert Dunstan
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64:December 1910
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56:Liberal Party
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166:World War II
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128:Soviet Union
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87:Labour Party
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335:1963 deaths
330:1877 births
273:Martin Pugh
75:World War I
68:land reform
324:Categories
172:References
52:Gray's Inn
213:Law Times
147:Edgbaston
48:barrister
115:against
313:, p.184
281:, p.133
250:, p.125
228:, p.131
153:at the
107:At the
93:at the
73:During
41:British
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159:Fulham
60:Totnes
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