Walter Harrison PC (2 January 1921 – 19 October 2012) was a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament for Wakefield from 1964 to 1987.

[2] In the late 1970s, he was noted for his skill at helping preserve the Labour government as its small majority gradually vanished.

[4] Weatherill said that the convention had never been intended for Matter of Confidence and it would be impossible to find a Conservative MP who would agree to abstain.

[5] This episode was dramatised in James Graham's 2012 play This House (which opened one month before Harrison's death).

[2] Harrison lived at Sandal Magna, near Wakefield, and died from heart failure at Pinderfields Hospital on 19 October 2012, aged 91.