leaked documents, passed to Roberts to form the basis of a parliamentary question, in concert with the Evening Standard. 1945 In 1945 Roberts went on a mission to Moscow, to meet Stalin, and published a pamphlet in April of that year with his views of the USSR. He was re-elected to parliament in the 1945 general election. Post-war period After the war Roberts became chairman of the House of Commons Estimates sub-committee. He went on the mission to China led by Charles Ammon, 1st Baron Ammon. On 19 April 1949 he opened an attack on the Labour government over the Amethyst Incident, stating that it would be better to improve relations with the Chinese Communist Party. His suggestion was supported by Woodrow Wyatt, then rejected by Walter Fletcher. At the 1950 general election, following boundary changes, he contested the re-drawn seat of Penrith and the Border but lost to the Conservative. In the three previous elections, Labour had not opposed him but, in 1950, they intervened and cost him his seat. In July 1956 Roberts joined the Labour Party and at the 1959 election fought Hexham as a Labour candidate without success. He was elected as a Labour councillor in Carlisle. Family Roberts was married three times. Firstly, in 1923, to Margaret Jennings, who died in 1924, shortly after the birth of a daughter; secondly, in 1928, to Anne Constance Davis Jennings, with whom he had two further daughters, the marriage ending in divorce in 1957; and thirdly, to Kate Sawyer. His first two wives were sisters, daughters of James George Jennings of Muir Central College. References External links Catalogue of Roberts' papers held in the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick Documents on Roberts' role in the Spanish Civil War from "Trabajadores: The Spanish Civil War through the eyes of organised labour", a digitised collection of more than 13,000 pages of documents from the archives of the British Trades Union Congress held in the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick 1900 births 1991 deaths People educated at Gresham's School Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies UK MPs 1935–1945 UK MPs 1945–1950 Councillors in Cumbria Liberal Party (UK) councillors Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates Border Regiment officers