[9] At the time of the election Rees stated that his political priorities were the housing question and the reform of the jury system.

Rees was unable to hold his seat at Barnstaple at the 1922 general election losing narrowly by just 174 votes in a straight fight with the Conservative candidate Basil Peto.

However, in 1923 when the Liberal Party was united around the question of Free Trade he won the seat back from Peto with a majority of 1,266 in a three-cornered contest including a Labour candidate.

Chris Cook describes Rees as a member of a right-wing coterie of Liberal MPs who could usually be found supporting the Conservatives when the party vote was split during the period of the first Labour government of 1924.

[10] Rees served as Deputy Chairman of the Road and Rail Traffic Appeal Tribunal and was made a freeman of the City of London in 1921 and of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey in 1954.

[1] His Honour Judge Tudor Rees died at his home in Tadworth, Surrey, aged 75 on 27 February 1956.