why did labour come to power?

why did labour come to power?

1. labours own making

   • they were the second largest party
   • more working class people worked for them
   • labour came to an electoral agreement with the co-operative party
   • they urged thier voters to dissacociate their themselves from the "direct action" values of the british communist party
   • a few labour ministers had been in cabinet during the ww1 coalition showing experience
   • more moderate mp's which appeal to a wider audience
   • they're a new younfg dynamic party which make the voters enthusiastic
   • ramsay mcdonald was popiular
   • growing grass root support in their local constituencies
   • ross mcibben said that due to the rise of the working class meant labour coming to power was inevitable

2. other factors

   • liberals offer to support labour to pass legislation mak a minority government
   • liberals refused to work with conservatives over free trade diputes
   • the rise of the working class-representaion of the peoples act
   • people were fed up with liberalism
   • divison in the liberal party
   • changing in social mobility
   • the irish sin fien party would no longer stand in parliament so there were more seats for labour
   • resentment at the liberals meant people wanted change
   • conservatives fail to deal with the economic crisis
   • the liberals were worn out and the they had lost motivation and enthusiasm
   • liberals have less money to fight there campaign
   • the redistrubution of seats meant there was more working class areas and so more people voted for there local labour mp
   • baldwin encouraged asquith to make agreemets with labour so that hey could come to power and show themselves up as a tlabour was a young and ineffective party