[1][3] Lipton first entered politics in 1928 when he contested the London County Council elections as the Liberal Party candidate for the Stepney division of Mile End.

[1] In October 1955, he used parliamentary privilege to question Prime Minister Anthony Eden about the alleged Third Man, Kim Philby.

[5] After a CIA pilot flying in support of the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état deliberately napalmed and destroyed the British cargo ship SS Springfjord, Lipton pursued successive Conservative and Labour Foreign Secretaries for the next 13 years over the UK's failure to obtain any compensation for the attack.

On 2 June 1975, he criticised the "mass hysteria deliberately created by the promoters of pop concerts" following scenes at Bay City Rollers shows.

[10][11] Following the arrival of 492 West Indian migrants in 1948, 242 were temporarily housed in Clapham Common tube station, a former air-raid shelter.

Contrary to the later experiences of West Indian migrants to the United Kingdom, the 'Windrush men' were welcomed and subsequently invited to an event with a small party of local officials in nearby Brixton.

"[12] Black civil rights leader and communist activist Billy Strachan was also present at this meeting, and used it to express his anger at the British government's attempts to scapegoat immigrants to hide their inability to solve the post-war housing crisis.

[13] Reportedly, news of Lipton's generosity contributed to the migrants' boosted perception of the area, later influencing their decision to settle there: "In the unknown and perplexing vastness of England, the Jamaicans now felt they could be sure of one place.