Oswald Mosley

Oswald Mosley was elected to Parliament straight away as a conservative MP for the District of Harrow or Harrow. In 1924 Mosley switched his political allegiance to the Labour Party. From 1926 to 1930 Mosley was the MP of Smithwick. He developed a reputation as a young brash political wunderkind. But in 1929 the stock market crashed. Britain was hit very hard. Unemployment which had been at 10% in 1929 shot to 22.2% by 1932. The great reserves of gold and jewels the empire had spent the better part of two centuries plundering had all been spent to win or sort of win the Great War. Now England appeared to be staring over the edge