Kammala wannan magana: A 1924 ya rubuta "Ilimin Kungiya" tare da matarsa Winifred. Ya goyi bayan
babban yajin aiki a 1926, kuma ya rubuta "Tarihin Ma'aikata na Babban yajin aiki" (1927) tare da Ellen Wilkinson MP da Raymond Postgate. Yana da dangantaka mai tsawo da Wilkinson. Ya kasance dan majalisa na Labour na Peterborough daga 1929 zuwa 1931, a karkashin firaministan farko na Labour, James Ramsay MacDonald. A cikin 1930, ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin 'yan majalisa goma sha bakwai na Labour don sanya hannu kan "Mosley Memorandum", wanda Oswald Mosley ya tsara. Ya rasa kujerarsa a Babban Zabe na 1931 wanda ya haifar da rarrabuwa a cikin jam'iyyar sakamakon MacDonald ya kafa Gwamnatin Kasa.