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George Nicoll Barnes ( January 2 , 1859 - April 21 , 1940 ) was a Scottish Politician and a leader of the Labour Party . Barnes was born in Lochee , Dundee . He was apprenticed as an engineer and became General Secretary of the Amalgamated Society Of Engineers . In 1895 he stood unsuccessfully for the Independent Labour Party in Rochdale . He was elected MP for Glasgow Blackfriars And Hutchesontown in 1906 for the Labour Party. He sat for that constituency until it was abolished in 1918, and thereafter sat for Glasgow Gorbals until 1922. He was leader of the Labour Party from February 14 , 1910 to February 6 , 1911 . He was Minister Of Pensions (1916-1917) and Minister Without Portfolio ( 1917 - 1920 ) under David Lloyd George . In 1918 the Labour Party decided to leave the Lloyd George Coalition but Barnes refused to resign. As a result he was expelled from the Labour Party and founded the National Democratic Party . After finishing as a minister he played no further significant role in UK Politics .
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