Alf Morris

Top of the 1969 ballot, Morris, a Labour MP in Manchester, turned his place into the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act of 1970, the first law in the world to give disabled people specific rights to services and access. It required councils to identify disabled residents and provide help at home, and new public buildings to be accessible. It passed in the final hours before Parliament dissolved for the 1970 election. He became the world's first minister for disabled people four years later.