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Ramsay MacDonald was born in Lossiemouth on the Moray coast and became an organiser of the British Labour Party. ... Despite his defeat in the final year of the war he was returned to the House of Commons in the 1922 election
At the end of 1923 Stanley Baldwin, the Conservative Prime Minister resigned in favour of MacDonald, who became Prime Minister in January 1924 as head of the countrys first Labour government. ...
In 1929 MacDonald once more became Labour Prime Minister but in 1931, as a result of increasing unemployment figures and a Sterling crisis MacDonald advocated austerity measures such as reducing unemployment benefits. The Labour Government was opposed to such a course of action and resigned on the 24th of August leaving MacDonald to form a coalition National government, which relied on Conservative support. ...
In June 1935 MacDonald resigned the premiership and was succeeded by Stanley Baldwin.
Approximate Word count = 707
Approximate Pages = 2.8
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