December last year brought the centenary of a General Election which had a double significance: it put an end to Stanley Baldwin’s short-lived first Government (Baldwin fought it on the unpopular issue of economic protection), and led to a hung parliament in which the Labour Party formed a Government for the first time.
Alistair Lexden has made a detailed study of the 1923 election. His survey appears as a chapter in a book published on 26 March by Biteback Publishing: British General Election Campaigns 1830-2019: The 50 Election Campaigns that Shaped Our Modern Politics, compiled by Iain Dale.
This detailed account of the 1923 election campaign was first published on this website in early August last year.
