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Alf Morris
Alfred Morris, Baron Morris of Manchester, AO, QSO, PC (23 March 1928 –12 August 2012) was a British Labour Co-operative politician and disability campaigner.
==Political career==
Morris served as Member of Parliament for Manchester Wythenshawe from 1964 until 1997, having previously unsuccessfully fought the, then, safe Conservative seat of Liverpool Garston in 1951 and the Wythenshawe seat in 1959.〔Cleminson, Peter "(Alf Morris: the people's parliamentarian )", ''The Legion'', retrieved 23 January 2010〕 He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Fred Peart, the Agriculture Minister. Morris campaigned against British entry to the Common Market and in May 1967 Prime Minister Harold Wilson sacked him, and six others, for abstaining in a Commons vote on the issue. Fred Peart did not appoint a replacement and Morris continued to work for him, albeit unofficially. In 1968, Peart became Leader of the Commons and reappointed Morris as his Parliamentary Private Secretary.〔
In 1970 Morris successfully introduced the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act, which was the first in the world to recognise and give rights to people with disabilities.〔(Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 (UK) )〕 In 1974 he became the first Minister for the Disabled anywhere in the world.〔〔"(Alf Morris: The law that changed the world, one step at a time )", ''Yorkshire Post'', 3 December 2009, retrieved 23 January 2010〕 In 1991 he introduced a Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill and he led campaigns on Gulf War Syndrome.〔
He was created a life peer as Lord Morris of Manchester, of Manchester in the County of Greater Manchester, in 1997.〔 He was a life member of the GMB Union. He served as President of the 1995 Co-operative Congress.
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