A general election was held in the United Kingdom on Tuesday, 27 October 1931. It saw a landslide election victory for the National Government, a three-party coalition which had been formed two months
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James Ramsay MacDonald was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, first briefly in 1924 and again from 1929 to 1935. The first two of his governments belonged to the Labour Party: a minority Labo
1931 United Kingdom general election
…support from his cabinet for his preferred policy responses to the economic and social crises brought about by the Great Depression, Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald split from the Labour Party and formed a new national government in coalition with the Conservative Party and a number of Liberals. MacDonald subsequently…
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Bloody Sunday
Macdonald (third from left) in 1906, with other leading figures in the party
Ramsay MacDonald by Solomon Joseph Solomon, 1911