[1] An active campaigner for social reform issues against an official Liberal candidate, he joined the Crofters Party parliamentary group and gave general support to the Liberal Party, while in opposition.

Spending the time in opposition he spoke in the Commons in favour of measures to ameliorate poverty.

Crofters were hard-bitten in the far north of Scotland by the clearances, unemployment, and low wages.

[3] He unsuccessfully stood for the Labour Party in Glasgow Cathcart in the 1918 general election.

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