Oxford By-election
However in 1938, he was chosen, as a rising star in the Liberal Party, to contest the by-election which occurred following the death of Captain R C Bourne the Conservative MP for Oxford. His only real connection with Oxford was that he had presided at a Liberal students’ conference there earlier that year. The Munich Agreement had been signed at the end of September and appeasement was central in the by-election campaign. In the end, perhaps due to Lindsay’s inexperience and lack of the common touch, perhaps to Hogg’s superior political skills, perhaps due to Labour’s less than wholehearted support of Lindsay – Hogg won the seat, albeit with a reduced majority.
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