Ernie Roberts
Politician
1912 – 1994
Who was Ernie Roberts?
Ernest Alfred Cecil "Ernie" Roberts was a British politician, a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party between 1979 general election and 1987 general election for the inner London constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington when he was deselected in favour of Diane Abbott.
Ernie Roberts left elementary school in Shrewsbury at the age of thirteen and was an engineering worker for many years until he became Assistant General Secretary of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers in 1957. He was very much on the left wing of the Labour Party.
He married Joyce Langley in 1953, and had a son and two daughters.
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