John Leslie (politician)

John Robert Leslie, MP (3 November 1873 – 12 January 1955) was a Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom.

Leslie and his wife had 3 sons, John, William and Robert, and two daughters, Clementina and Alice.

When discussing the 1938 Hire Purchase Act, Leslie made anti-Semitic accusations over the apparent involvement of Jewish people in extortionate hire-purchase agreements: ‘I do not want to raise racial prejudices, but hon.

[1] John Leslie held the seat until he retired from the House of Commons at the 1950 general election.

This article about a Labour Party member of Parliament representing an English constituency is a stub.