Motherwell is the only constituency ever to have elected Labour, Tory, Communist and SNP MPs. The Communist was J Walton Newbold, elected in 1922. In the space of 20 years, Newbold was a member of the ILP, the BSP, the Communist Party, the SDF, the Labour Party (standing against Winston Churchill in Epping in 1929) and National Labour. Robert McIntyre won for the SNP just before the 1945 election (when he was defeated), standing in every election until 1974. His Commons sponsor was James Barr, who had been MP for Motherwell from 1924-31 before losing to Thomas Ormiston, a Tory whose most exciting achievement was to be the first MP elected to the council of the Institute of Taxation. Barr, a pacifist, featured in a pamphlet of Commons contributions against the Second World War. With disarming honesty, the collection was called Ignored Speeches.