Ideologies / Social Democrat / Ramsay MacDonald
§ The minds · 1866–1937 · United Kingdom · Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald
Labour's first PM
A pioneer whose coalition turn split his party.
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The first Labour prime minister, remembered for both breakthrough and the bitterness of the 1931 National Government.
social
Reserved and respectable; conventional in cultural outlook.
economic
Moderate gradualist; cautious in the Depression's grip.
governance
Committed parliamentarian and party-builder.
Notable for
- First Labour PM (1924)
- Built Labour into a party of government
- The 1931 National Government
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