In which Parliamentary constituency did Frank Field replace Edmund Dell as MP in 1979?
Frank Field (British politician) Poverty Action Group from 1969 to 1979, and of the Low Pay Unit from 1974 to 1980. Field unsuccessfully contested the constituency of South Buckinghamshire at the 1966 general election, where he was defeated by the sitting Conservative MP Ronald Bell. He was selected to contest the safe Labour seat of Birkenhead at the 1979 general election on the retirement of the sitting MP Edmund Dell. Field held the seat with a majority of 5,909 and has remained the constituency's MP since then. In Parliament, Field was made a member of the Opposition frontbench by the then Labour leader Michael
Edmund Dell Edmund Dell Edmund Emanuel Dell (15 August 1921 – 1 November 1999) was a British politician and businessman. Dell was born in London, the son of a Jewish manufacturer. In the Second World War he served in the Royal Artillery, reaching the rank of lieutenant. He was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School and Queen's College, Oxford where he was a member of the Communist Party, as his future ministerial colleague Denis Healey had been before the war. He graduated with first class honours in Modern History in 1947. Dell began work for Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in Manchester as