Talk:John Parker (Labour politician)

Longest serving labour MP?
According to the Tony Benn page, Benn was an MP for over 50 years. Parker was an MP for 48 years. Was Parker actually the longest continually serving labour MP?

Apepper (talk) 12:00, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Benn served for around 47 years, with an interruption of well over two years when he inherited his father's peerage. Harfarhs (talk) 19:05, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

As junior minister
"Parker was briefly a junior minister from 1945 to 1946, serving as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Dominions Office, with James Callaghan as his Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS)."

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that junior ministers don't have PPSs. Is this particular statement sourced? As I understand it, the James Callaghan article doesn't refer to Callaghan having any government job until becoming a junior minister himself in 1947. Harfarhs (talk) 19:01, 23 April 2017 (UTC)