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Obituary of Frank Marsden Labour MP of the old guard whose tiny but tough Liverpool seat was abolished under boundary changes
2006
Overview
FRANK MARSDEN, who has died aged 83, was Labour MP for Liverpool Scotland from 1971 until February 1974, when the seat - one of the smallest in the country - was swept away by boundary changes. Marsden was a hard-working and popular city councillor, and when, early in 1971, Walter Alldritt, the Labour MP for the city's Scotland division, resigned to take up a trades union post, Marsden (who was Alldritt's agent) was offered the seat. Although the Labour vote was split (thanks to an independent anti-abortion candidate who had been rejected by Labour to contest the seat), Marsden held it with a greatly reduced majority of 6,795 votes over the Conservatives,
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Daily Telegraph
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