Bruce Leslie Home Douglas-Mann was a British politician.
11 Facts About Bruce Douglas-Mann
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Bruce Douglas-Mann was born at Bexhill, Sussex, the son of a solicitor, Leslie John Douglas-Mann, MC.
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Bruce Douglas-Mann worked on obscenity cases and briefed barrister John Mortimer on the film Last Tango in Paris.
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Bruce Douglas-Mann was chairman of the Society of Labour Lawyers from 1974 to 1980.
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Bruce Douglas-Mann contested St Albans in 1964 and Maldon in 1966 as a Labour candidate.
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Bruce Douglas-Mann was elected Member of Parliament for Kensington North in 1970, then for Mitcham and Morden in February 1974.
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In 1982, Bruce Douglas-Mann was one of the later defectors among Labour MPs to the new Social Democratic Party.
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Bruce Douglas-Mann made the unique decision to resign and seek re-election at a by-election after his change of allegiance.
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Bruce Douglas-Mann was the last MP to trigger a by-election after switching parties until Douglas Carswell in 2014.
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Bruce Douglas-Mann lost to the Conservative candidate Angela Rumbold and was pushed into third place when he stood again at the 1983 general election.
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Bruce Douglas-Mann tried one final time in 1987, but remained in third and last place with only 16.6 per cent.