Political commentator on radio and Labour MP for Coventry East from
1945
From 1943 to 1945, he served as Deputy Director of Psychological Warfare at Allied Forces Headquarters in Algiers and later as Assistant Chief of the Psychological Warfare Division of Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force.
Assistant Editor of the New Statesman and Nation from July 1938 to August 1955; edited the New Statesman from June 1970 until March 1972.
Held three different ministerial posts in the 1964-1970 Labour government: Minister for Housing and Local Government (1964-1966), Lord President of the Council and Leader of the House of Commons (1966-1968) and Secretary for Health and Social Services (1968-1970).