Longford was initially a member of the [[Conservative Party]] but was converted to [[Socialism]] by his fiancee (the biographer Elizabeth Longford), whom he married in 1931. From 1945 to 1951 he was a junior minister in the Labour government of [[Clement Attlee]] and from 1964 to 1968 was a cabinet minister in the Labour government of [[Harold Wilson]]. | Longford was initially a member of the [[Conservative Party]] but was converted to [[Socialism]] by his fiancee (the biographer Elizabeth Longford), whom he married in 1931. From 1945 to 1951 he was a junior minister in the Labour government of [[Clement Attlee]] and from 1964 to 1968 was a cabinet minister in the Labour government of [[Harold Wilson]]. |