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'All the Winners' - And the Losers!

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.

Non-Fiction 1923 4 mins

Overview

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers are among the stars of this 1923 election round-up. A momentous election failed to furnish Stanley Baldwin's Conservatives with a working majority, allowing Ramsey MacDonald to form the very first Labour government with support from Herbert Asquith's Liberals. Some notable female victors and election-themed student highjinks complete the newsreel.

William Lloyd-George and Winston Churchill - one of this election's losers - also appear, and as a bonus there's a close relative of a sixth PM in the shape of Austen Chamberlain, half-brother of Neville.