Later Life
Bellenger remained on the Labour backbenches for the rest of his life. He became increasingly disconnected from the mainstream of the party, being unsympathetic to trade unions, opposing the decriminalisation of homosexuality and supporting the Unilateral Declaration of Independence by white Rhodesians. Following the 1966 general election the Bassetlaw Parliamentary Labour Party deselected him over his opposition to steel nationalisation and position on Rhodesia.
However, Bellenger was still Bassetlaw's MP when he died at his Kensington, London, home in May 1968, aged 73. He had received the honorary freedom of the Borough of Worksop two days earlier.
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