Constituency : Liverpool Kirkdale 1964-81 ( Labour ), 1981-3 ( SDP )
James followed a day after David Ginsburg.
James was educated at St Theresa's School, Liverpool and the London School of Economics. He became an engineer. He was a Liverpool city councillor. He took Liverpool Kirkdale from the Tories in 1964 and gradually made it safe. James was a whip from 1974 to 1976 then became a junior Northern Ireland minister. In 1980 James was convicted of shoplifting. His defence mentioned that he was taking anti-depressants due to stress and that a store detective had triggered memories of Northern Ireland. He was a practising Catholic who opposed abortion.
With boundary changes shaking up Liverpool's representation , James decided to stand down in 1983, the only one of the defectors not to try and retain a seat in Parliament.
He died in 1985 aged 59.
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