First Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
Great Lives
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Do All Successful Labour Leaders End Up by Betraying Their Party?
I think a lot of it is about timing. The closer you are to those events, i mean, i'll give you an example. One was michael foote, who doorstepped at a labour party event one year remember and he said ramsey mac donald was one of the guilty men. And then the other story was one from tony ben who told me that just after he became an m p in bristol in 19 50, he found the old er membership cards. In those days, the leader of the party's picture was in the centre of the cards. And the agent had gone through every single one of the membership cards and cut out ramsey mc donald
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