After he had taken the oath, it was noticed that his position on the Rent Tribunals was remunerated and that he therefore might hold an 'office of profit under the Crown' which would disqualify him from election.
A Select Committee was set up[1] which reported that his election was invalid; a Bill[2] was rushed through validating it and indemnifying him from the consequences of acting as an MP while disqualified.
[3] Forman was on the left of the Labour Party and was a consistent opponent of conscription and National Service.
Over the Suez Canal in 1954, Forman was one of six Labour MPs who voted with the Conservative government to support the dismantling of the British base in Suez; the unofficial leader of this group, Emrys Hughes, declared that he agreed that the base was obsolete in the age of the hydrogen bomb.
He was a member of the Parliamentary Temperance Group and in 1957 supported restrictions on access to clubs selling alcohol for children.