Introduction 1 1. Tuesday, 22 January 1924 5 The King and the Prime Minister - Cabinet Making - Contrasting Experiences - The Junta - Pride and Prejudice 2. The Arrival of Labour 21 Labour's Impact on the House of Commons in 1906 - The Emergence of a Working-Class Identity - The Political Classes and Reform - Trade Unions Become Political - The Independent Labour Party (ILP) - The Fabian Society - The Social Democratic Federation (SDF) - The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) - The Politics of 1906 and After 3. From Pressure Group to Government in Waiting 45 The Impact of the Great War - British Labour and the World - MacDonald and the Independent Labour Party (ILP) - Cross-Party Cooperation Against the War - Labour Enters the Government - Revolutionary Fervour - Responses to the Bolshevik Revolution - Labour Comes Together - Labour at the End of the War 4. Steps to Downing Street 69 The New Franchise - The 1918 General Election - The 1918 Parliament - The 1922 General Election - The 1922 Parliament - The Labour Party on the Eve of Office - The 1923 General Election - Final Steps to Office 5. The Leader 89 The Challenge of Writing About MacDonald - Lossiemouth - Bristol and London in the 1880s and 1890s - Husband and Widower - Party Leader and War-Time Dissident - Leader Again: Charisma and Vulnerabilities - Reaching Number 10 - MacDonald: Socialist and Socialite - Foreign Secretary - In Number 10 6. The Big Four 115 J. R.

Clynes - Arthur Henderson - Philip Snowden - J. H. Thomas 7. Old Labour 143 William Adamson - Vernon Hartshorn - F. W. Jowett - Sydney Olivier - Thomas Shaw - Stephen Walsh - Sidney Webb - John Wheatley 8. New Labour 177 Noel Buxton - Viscount Chelmsford - Viscount Haldane - Lord Parmoor - Lord Thomson - Charles Trevelyan - Josiah Wedgwood 9. In Office but not in Power 207 January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October and the End Notes 239 Acknowledgements 267 Bibliography 269.