‘Unlike most of the party’s senior figures, he had no direct connection to the trade union movement; indeed, he was sceptical of the value of organised labour, and uneasy when he was expected to defend industrial action.’
Malcolm Petrie on Ramsay MacDonald’s failure.
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Throughout the 1920s, MacDonald had faced accusations, especially from the left, that he was too fond of aristocratic...
