
Where we come from. A little history
Ramsay MacDonald. Past Prime MinisterIn 1893 a group of socialists including James Keir Hardie, Robert Smillie, Tom Mann, John Bruce Glasier, Ben Tillett, and Philip Snowden formed a new national working class party called the Independent Labour Party. MacDonald joined in 1894 and the following year was the ILP candidate for Southampton in the 1895 General Election. MacDonald, along with the other twenty-seven ILP candidates, was defeated and overall, the party won only 44,325 votes
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