First Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
Great Lives
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How Did Stanny Baldwin Get There?
There were stories about somewhat pornographic love poems to a lady in pimlico. Are they true? I couldn't have no idea whether they're true. He first got there because stanny baldwin decided that perhaps protection should be duced. After all, he had gone to the country only 18 months earlier on a free trade ticket. Baldwin felt it was very important that labour should be allowed a chance to govern. And he thought that, as a minority government, they could be brought down if they looked like doing anything at all dangerous.
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