Leo Abse

Leopold Abse (born April 22, 1917) is a British politician from Wales. He was a Labour Member of Parliament for nearly 30 years, and is noted for promoting private member's bills to legalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce laws. Since his retirement he has written political books based on his interest in psychoanalysis.

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Abse was the son of Rudolf Abse, a Jewish solicitor and cinema owner who lived in Cardiff. His younger brother Dannie Abse is a well known poet. Abse attended Howard Gardens High School in Cardiff followed by the London School of Economics where he studied law. Having joined the Labour Party in 1934, he clandestinely visited Spain during the closing months of the Spanish Civil War in 1939.

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