sentences:  Plummer announced his resignation in May 1950, with the new Minister of Food Maurice Webb explaining that the role of the Overseas Food Corporation had changed fundamentally in practice compared with the basis on which Plummer had accepted it.The announcement was said to have ""brought the biggest cheer from the Opposition benches that has been heard in the House of Commons for a long time"".In 1951 Plummer was adopted as Labour Party candidate for Deptford.