Parliament
Defeated at Rutherglen in the 1950 general election, Brooman-White narrowly won the same seat in the 1951 election. He was immediately picked by James Hutchison, the Under-Secretary of State for War, to be his Parliamentary Private Secretary. He accompanied Hutchison on some of his ministerial visits. Brooman-White's maiden speech, made in July 1952, concerned the steel industry and he declared that neither Karl Marx nor Adam Smith would be helpful in working out a long-term future for the industry. He made a specialism of the steel industry throughout the Parliament.
In 1953, Brooman-White was named as a substitute member of the delegation to the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, later in the decade being promoted into the main delegation. When James Hutchison resigned in 1954, he transferred to be Parliamentary Private Secretary to Anthony Nutting, Minister of State at the Foreign Office. He did a great deal of work on Cyprus, trying to promote unity between the Greek and Turkish residents, and urged more help for refugees from Hungary following the Soviet invasion of 1956.
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