stated to Members of Parliament: "I don't know who sent these men ... it is bound to result in difficulties ... we can give no assurances that they can be found suitable work. I hope no encouragement will be given to others to follow them." From January 1951 he was Minister of Pensions. Isaacs retired from Parliament in 1959. He had long since moved to East Molesey in Surrey where he served as a Deputy Lieutenant and as a Justice of the Peace. He was eventually Chairman of the Surrey Bench of Magistrates. References External links 1883 births 1979 deaths Deputy Lieutenants of Surrey Labour Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies British trade union leaders Members of Southwark Metropolitan Borough Council Members of the General Council of the Trades Union Congress Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom Ministers in the Attlee governments, 1945–1951 UK MPs 1923–1924 UK MPs 1929–1931 UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 UK MPs 1950–1951 UK MPs 1951–1955 UK MPs 1955–1959 English justices of the peace