Evan Luard

David Evan Trant Luard (31 October 1926 – 8 February 1991), most commonly known as Evan Luard, was a British Labour Party and Social Democratic Party (SDP) politician, and a renowned international relations scholar.Having first contested the seat in 1964, Luard was elected as the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford in 1966.He served as a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State in the Foreign Office from 1969 to 1970 and again from 1976 until Labour left power in 1979.Luard joined the SDP soon after its formation, and contested the 1983 general election for the party in the newly formed constituency of Oxford West and Abingdon.This article about a Labour Party member of Parliament representing an English constituency is a stub.
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