George Henry Roberts PC

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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 (27 July 1868 – 25 April 1928) was a Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

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 politician who switched parties twice.

At the 1906 general election

United Kingdom general election, 1906

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, he was elected as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Norwich

Norwich (UK Parliament constituency)

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. He was a minister in the Lloyd George

David Lloyd George

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 Coalition Government

Coalition Government 1916-1922

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 as Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade

Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade

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 from 1916 to 1917, Minister of Labour

Secretary of State for Employment

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 from 1917 to 1919, and Minister of Food Control from 1919 to 1920. He was appointed as a Privy Counsellor

Privy Council of the United Kingdom

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 in 1917.

Roberts stood in 1918

United Kingdom general election, 1918

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 as a Coalition Labour

Coalition Labour

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 candidate, opposed by the official Labour Party candidate. After leaving office in 1920, Roberts returned as a director to the firm he had left as works manager upon entering Parliament in 1906

United Kingdom general election, 1906

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. He sat on the back-benches and as a Lloyd George Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 retained his seat in the 1922 election

United Kingdom general election, 1922

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 but lost it as a Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 in 1923

United Kingdom general election, 1923

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. Roberts spent the rest of his life in the sugar beet

Sugar beet

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 industry.

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