Career As An MP
Palmer joined the Labour Party on his twenty-first birthday and was selected as the Labour candidate for the ultra-safe Tory constituency of Chelsea in the 1983 general election. Prior to contesting Broxtowe, he edited and published a magazine to represent the views of ordinary Labour party members - Grass Roots.
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