The Scottish Prohibition Party was a minor Scottish

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which advocated

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. The party was founded in 1901. In its early years, Bob Stewart acted as the party's full-time organiser.Bob Stewart
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Town Council. From the 1908 by-election onwards, Scrymgeour stood for the party in the Dundee constituency. Stewart acted as his election agent in 1910, but fell out with him over his religiosity. He led a

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split, the Socialist Prohibition and Reform Party, which merged with the

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in 1920. Scrymgeour was finally elected as an MP for Dundee in the 1922 general election, when he and the Labour candidate E. D. Morel defeated the National Liberal candidates, one of which was future

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. In Parliament, on issues other than prohibition, he generally supported the Labour Party. Scrymgeour lost his seat at the 1931 general election. The party was disbanded in 1935, against the wishes of Scrymgeour.

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