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Did Ramsay MacDonald betray his party in 1931?
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Did Ramsay MacDonald betray his party in 1931? There are many reasons why historians dispute whether or not Ramsay MacDonald betrayed the labour party is 1931. To discover my own theory and opinion on this issue, I have researched and analysed sources and considered why the labour party felt like this. When labour's cabinet could not agree on expenditure cuts on 24th August 1931, the labour party assumed that MacDonald would resign and Mr. Baldwin, leader of the conservatives, would be asked to from a government. In fact something quite different occurred. MacDonald informed his cabinet colleagues a day after of supposedly handing in his resignation to King George V, that the labour party would no longer govern but he himself would preside a National government. This would be a coalition of the leading political parties including the labour party's class enemy: the Conservatives. Surely it was better to have no...
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