Bernard Ingham - Background

Background

Ingham was educated at Hebden Bridge Grammar School and joined the Hebden Bridge Times newspaper at the age of 16. He went on to work for the Yorkshire Evening Post, the Yorkshire Post, latterly as northern industrial correspondent, and The Guardian. While a reporter at the Yorkshire Post, Ingham was an active member of the National Union of Journalists and was vice chairman of the Leeds branch. He is also likely to have been the anonymous and aggressively anti-Conservative columnist "Albion" for the Leeds Weekly Citizen – a Labour Party organ – from 1964 to 1967.

Ingham's father was a Labour Party councillor and he was himself a member of the Labour Party until he joined the Civil Service.

Ingham contested the safe Conservative Moortown ward of Leeds City Council in the 1965 council elections for the Labour party, having been nominated by the Fabian Society.

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