Ben Ford

Benjamin Thomas Ford (1 April 1925 – 17 April 2022) was a British Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Bradford North from 1964 to 1983.

Early years Born to parents Benjamin Charles Ford and May Ethel (née Moorton), In 1982, he was deselected as the Labour candidate in favour of Pat Wall, and subsequently stood at the 1983 general election as an Independent Labour candidate. When that party merged with the Liberal Party to form the Liberal Democrats in 1988, he became chair of the party's constituency association in Leeds North West. In 1991, he was appointed president of the Leeds Federation of Liberal Democrats, remaining in situ for the next six years.

Publications Piecework, 1960