Ted Knight

Edward Robert Knight (13 June 1933 – 30 March 2020) was a local politician in London, England, who was leader of Lambeth London Borough Council from 1978 until he was disqualified as a councillor in 1986.

Early years Edward Knight was born in Brixton in 1933. After leaving Strand Grammar School in Tulse Hill, he was employed as an insurance clerk. He joined ASSET, which later became the ASTMS trade union, and was a member of the Labour League of Youth from the age of 15. In 1954, Knight was expelled from the Labour Party after the National Executive Committee accused him of supporting Socialist Outlook, a proscribed newspaper whose editorial policy was controlled by a covert Trotskyist organisation known as The Club. With his fellow expellees, he was then involved in establishing the Socialist Labour League (SLL), becoming one of its full-time organisers in Glasgow for three years.