Opening the door for Richard

Sir Richard Acland Sir Stafford Cripps Nye Bevan  Herbert Morrison Manny Shinwell Hugh Dalton Clement Attlee John Strachey original cartoon artwork. Sir Richard Acland was selected to fight the Gravesend seat following the expulsion of the Labour member of parliament Garry Allighan from the party for making allegations of corruption. He won the Gravesend by-election of November 1947 with a majority of 1,675. 

Size 32cm x 24cm

Medium Pen and ink, blue crayon on paper

Publication Daily Dispatch

Published 27 November 1947