Entry To Parliament
At the 1945 general election, Prior-Palmer was adopted as the Conservative Party candidate for Worthing, a new constituency which had been created in boundary changes just before the election. He was placed on retired pay by the Army in 1946 with the honorary rank of Brigadier.
In Parliament, Prior-Palmer began his career by voting (along with many backbench Conservative MPs) against the large loan from the United States which the Labour government had negotiated after the end of Lend-Lease. However, these were the only dissenting votes he ever cast against the Conservative whip. In 1946 he argued for retaining conventional defence in addition to nuclear arms, because an answer would be found to the atomic bomb.
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