Thomas Magnay (14 September 1876 – 3 November 1949) was a

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politician in the

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, who joined the breakaway Liberal National faction and served as a

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(MP) from 1931 to 1945. He unsuccessfully contested the 1929 general election as a

candidate in the Blaydon constituency in County Durham. When the Liberal Party divided in 1931 over whether to support Ramsay MacDonald's National Government, Magnay joined the pro-government Liberal National faction. At the 1931 general election he was elected as MP for Gateshead, a previously safe seat for the Labour Party, but where two Labour MPs had died that year. He defeated the influential union leader

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, who was the Labour candidate. He held the Gateshead seat until his defeat at the

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by the left-wing Labour candidate

Konni Zilliacus Konni Zilliacus (13 September 1894 – 6 July 1967) was the Member of Parliament for Gateshead from 1945 until 1950, and for Manchester Gorton from 1955 until his death. He was a left-wing Labour Party politician. Zilliacus spoke nine l ...

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