Richard Kelley (24 July 1904 – April 1984)[1] was a British trade unionist and left-wing Labour Party politician from the coal mining area of Doncaster.
Richard Kelley was able to secure election because the collieries in the Don Valley were considerably more militant than in the rest of Yorkshire and built an independent power base around his candidacy.
[7] In February 1961, the German Democratic Republic's news agency ADN reported that Kelley had been "harassed", "threatened" and then arrested by police in West Berlin whilst visiting the city in connection with his attendance at a conference for coexistence and disarmament in Warsaw.
[8] In June of that year, Kelley's son Jack, then aged 23, was fined £1 for painting the slogan "ban the bomb" on a bus shelter near Doncaster, but said "it has nothing to do with my father".
[15] The MPs, who included Tony Benn and future leader Michael Foot, were accused by the SDA of being part of a shift in the party "in favour of intolerant Marxist totalitarianism".