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On 22 January 1924, [59] he took office as the first Labour Prime Minister, [60] the first from a working-class background [60] and one of the very few without a university education. [ 61 ] Prime Minister (1924)
29 October 1924 () – 30 May 1929 () Election: 1924 United Kingdom general election: Government: Second Baldwin ministry: House of Commons; Members: 615: Speaker: John Henry Whitley: Leader: Stanley Baldwin: Prime Minister: Stanley Baldwin: Leader of the Opposition: Ramsay MacDonald: Third-party leader: H. H. Asquith: House of Lords; Lord ...
Wheatley remained a widely respected political figure and when MacDonald became Prime Minister in January 1924, he appointed Wheatley as his Minister of Health. Wheatley is best remembered for his Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 , which saw a massive expansion in affordable municipal housing for the working class.
An Act to make further provision with respect to the cost of medical benefit and to the expenses of the administration of benefits under the Acts relating to national health insurance, and to amend section twenty-nine of the National Health Insurance Act, 1918, and for purposes connected therewith.
The main achievement of the government was the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924 (the Wheatley Housing Act), which MacDonald dubbed 'our most important legislative item'. [3] This measure went some way towards rectifying the problem of the housing shortage, caused by the disruption of the building trade during the First World War and the ...
Having been re-elected vice-chairman of the party in 1922 and 1923, Wedgwood expected a seat in the Cabinet when Labour formed its first government at the start of 1924. There was speculation in the press that he would be made First Lord of the Admiralty and some expectation that he would become Secretary of State for the Colonies or for India .
Among the new members of parliament is 30-year-old future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, the new Conservative MP for Stockton-on-Tees (born in Chelsea to a British father and an American mother). [12] 2 November – The Sunday Express becomes the first newspaper to publish a crossword. [2] 22 November – Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster ...
The Conservative Government of the United Kingdom that began in 1922 and ended in 1924 consisted of two ministries: the Law ministry (from 1922 to 1923) and then the first Baldwin ministry (from 1923 onwards). The government was led by Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin, appointed respectively as Prime Minister by King George V.