“I started off as an office boy in the Melbourne City Council,” Ralph said, telling me he returned to his old job after the war. “And you know, it was a pretty dead sort of existence after the flying days.” This is a part of the bomber war that isn’t spoken about often: t...
However, this was sufficient for the Labour Party to take control of the County Council by one seat. At the 1992 General Election, he took the West Lancashire parliamentary seat and in the following elections, in 1997 and 2001, he retained the seat with a substantial majority. In 1992, he...