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Britain’s National Government

From crisis management to permanence

This article explains why the National Government, created as a result of the financial emergency of August 1931, unexpectedly remained in office until the first year of the Second World War

Ramsay MacDonald (bottom row, second from left) with the new Cabinet in the garden of No. 10 Downing Street in August 1931

AQA AS Britain, 1906–51

AQA A2 The state and people: Britain 1918–64

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