From 1921, he served on the National Administrative Council of the ILP, and chaired its London and Southern Counties division.
[3] The ILP was affiliated to the Labour Party, for which Hunter stood unsuccessfully in Hackney Central at the 1923 and 1924 United Kingdom general elections.
[7] The Browning family were active supporters of the early Social Democratic Federation in East London, with Grace's brother, Egbert Browning working as an agent for SDF leader, George Lansbury and sister Beatrice who was also an active member of the same movement.
[8] Ernest Hunter later remarried to Eva Rolph in Romford in 1920 and had two more children, William and David.
Ernest had separated from her and cohabited with Eleanor Dalton, an active member of the ILP, from 1924 until his death.