Normally a safe Labour seat , he did well to win it in narrowly in the National Government landslide victory of 1931 .
Normally a safe Labour seat , he lost it to Willie Gallacher of the Communist Party in 1935 .
Normally a safe Labour seat , he did well to win it in narrowly in the National Government landslide victory of 1931 , but lost it to Willie Gallacher of the Communist Party in 1935 .