First Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
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Did He Have a Moment of Political Awakening?
I don't quite see how we get from this existence in scotland to suddenly being enthused for the labour party. He had a very good school teacher agoin called john macdonald, who actually had a class oflink 70 kids in this little school. But ramsey was clearly one he thought was marked out for bigger things. And it's hard to believe that he wasn't very conscious of his background and under potential limitations ecause he was in a place where there were plenty of wealthy families outside of lossymouth. Now, whether that contributed, i don't know, whether it was the influence of his mother, perhaps as well. It wasn't actually obvious, even
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