Parliament
At the 1945 general election, Battley won the Clapham Parliamentary seat (which had the same boundaries as his LCC division). He was a Parliamentary supporter of temperance movement, and opposed a government amendment to allow restaurants run by local authorities to sell alcoholic liquor. He also opposed continuation of national service.
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