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Vor 2 Tagen · James Ramsay MacDonald FRS (né James McDonald Ramsay; 12 October 1866 – 9 November 1937) was a British statesman and politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first who belonged to the Labour Party, leading minority Labour governments for nine months in 1924 and again between 1929 and 1931.
Vor 3 Tagen · Ramsay MacDonald In 1924, with Liberal support, James Ramsay MacDonald formed the first Labour government, though his minority administration was brought down less than one year later over questions of its sympathy for the new Soviet state and over alleged communist influence within the party.
Vor 2 Tagen · Ramsay MacDonald in particular made repeated appeals to the status of workers as members of a consuming public, and in fact staked his argument for nationalization of the railways and coal on his contention that this would enhance the power of public opinion to regulate industrial relations. The mainstream Labour position was, in ...
Vor 3 Tagen · In particular, 1929 was not a bad year to be ousted from power, as Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour party was to find. To posit another counterfactual: what if the Conservatives had won in 1929 (as most people expected them to do)? Nothing they could have done would have obviated the economic crisis that was to follow later in 1929 ...
Vor 3 Tagen · He served as undersecretary of state for war in the first Labour government (1924), led by Ramsay MacDonald. In 1927 he was appointed to the Indian Statutory Commission. Joining the Labour government in 1930, he was successively chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster—a sinecure that left him free to give wide-ranging assistance to ...
Vor einem Tag · Ramsay MacDonald was Labour Prime Minister between 1924, 1929–1931 and as head of the National Government during 1931–1935. Although the Labour government lacked a majority, it passed the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 , which increased government subsidies to local authorities to build municipal housing for rent for low paid workers.
Vor einem Tag · Following this simple logic, pro-government speakers were given easy access to the airwaves, while Labour leader Ramsay MacDonald was refused permission to broadcast; the Archbishop of Canterbury was not even allowed a slot to outline a joint proposal from church leaders encouraging a resumption of negotiations. The BBC’s stance ...
