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In the election of 1922 an increased number of victories enabled the Labour Party to become Her Majesty’s Opposition. Within just over a year, after another general election, the newly elected leader, J. Ramsay MacDonald, formed the first Labour Government. After nine months’ experience of office, electoral disaster in November 1924 brought the Conservatives back to power for another five years.
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Gupta, P.S. (1975). Imperial Economic Relations, 1922–29. In: Imperialism and the British Labour Movement, 1914–1964. Cambridge Commonwealth Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02439-1_3
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