David Kerr (English politician)

David Leigh Kerr (25 March 1923 – 12 January 2009) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

[1][2][3] A sufferer of diabetes, he was prohibited from joining the Royal Air Force during World War II, but would go on to work in the ambulance corps during the Blitz.

Aside from two years between 1967 and 1969 as parliamentary private secretary to Judith Hart, the minister of state in the Commonwealth Office, in 1967–69, Kerr remained on the backbenches during his time as an MP.

[5] After standing down as an MP, Kerr served as director and chairman of the anti-poverty charity War on Want.

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