John Baird (UK politician)
- John Baird (UK politician)
John Baird (born 26 May 1906 – 21 March 1965) was a British Labour Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP).
He has first elected to the House of Commons in the Labour landslide at the 1945 general election, when he defeated the long-serving Liberal MP, Geoffrey Mander.
When his constituency was abolished for the 1950 general election, Baird was returned to Parliament for the new Wolverhampton North East. He held that seat until he stepped down at the 1964 general election.
According to John Callaghan, Baird should be "countered as the first Trotskyist MP" for assistance he gave to the second Revolutionary Socialist League, later better known as the Militant tendency. [John Callaghan "The Far Left in British Politics", 1987, Basil Blackwell, p192.]
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