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The small Parliamentary Labour Party of the early thirties was led by Lansbury. After the general election of 14 November 1935, Attlee led a much larger Parliamentary Party, when Lansbury resigned over the Abyssinian crisis. Throughout the nineteen-thirties there was serious debate on future policy, triggered off by the economic crisis and the electoral disaster of 1931. After 1935, during the Government’s appeasement policy vis-à-vis the Fascist Powers, the debate’s emphasis shifted more to foreign policy.
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Gupta, P.S. (1975). From a Radical Opposition to Coalition, 1931–45. 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_8
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