Neville Sandelson

Neville Sandelson

Neville Devonshire Sandelson (27 November 1923 – 12 January 2002) was a British politician.

Sandelson was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a barrister, called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1946, and director of a publishing company. He was elected to the London County Council in 1952 and was a council member of Toynbee Hall and the Fabian Society.

Sandelson contested Ashford in 1950, 1951 and 1955, the Beckenham by-election in 1957 and Rushcliffe in 1959. He might have won the seat of Heston and Isleworth at the 1966 general election from Reader Harris, its Conservative MP, had it not been for a strong Liberal Party vote. Additionally he also lost the Leicester South West seat in the subsequent election.

He was elected Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Hayes and Harlington in a 1971 by-election. Later in the decade he survived a number of attempts to de-select him and seemed to relish the role of the beleaguered right wing Labour MP. In 1981, he was among the Labour MPs who defected to the new Social Democratic Party. Sandelson later said that he had decided to join the party months before, and had voted for Michael Foot in the Labour leadership election in order to ensure Labour had an unelectable leader.

In 1983 he lost his seat, polling 29% of the vote - although he almost pushed Labour into third place which allowed the Conservative candidate Terry Dicks to win. When the 1987 general election came round he did not stand and endorsed a number of Conservative candidates as a means of defeating Labour though the list included Chris Patten whose seat was a prime SDP-Liberal Alliance target which Labour had no chance of winning. Despite the above activities he was allowed to rejoin the Labour party in 1996.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Arthur Skeffington
Member of Parliament for Hayes and Harlington
1971 - 1983
Succeeded by
Terry Dicks



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