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A quick résumé of the history of Britain’s first Labour government would maintain that it was a minority administration, lucky to be in office, of short duration and achieved little in policy beyond the important Wheatley Housing Act that subsidised the building of local authority rented accommodation for the working class and securing fleeting successes in foreign policy in Europe. Indeed, Britain’s first Labour government has generally been portrayed as a mere cul de sac in the overall history of the Labour Party.
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Notes
Thomas Jones, Whitehall Diary: Volume 1, 1916–1925 (London: Oxford University Press, 1969), p. 301.
Philip Snowden,The Housewife’s Budget (London: Labour Party, 1924).
Keith Laybourn, Unemployment and Employment with Particular Reference to Women in Britain c. 1900–1951 (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen, 2002), particularly chs 3 and 4; Keith Laybourn, ‘Waking up to the Fact that there are any unemployed’: Women, Unemployment and the Domestic Solution in Britain, 1918–1939’, History, 88:4 (2003), pp. 607–23.
Lewis Minkin, The Contentious Alliance: Trade Unions and the Labour Party (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991).
Ibid., pp. 30–4.
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Shepherd, J., Laybourn, K. (2006). Conclusion. In: Britain’s First Labour Government. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287365_9
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