He was voted out of his country's parliament for anti-war activities that included founding the Union of Democratic control and later the right-wing press printed a copy of his birth certificate, showing his illegitimate birth. He returned to parliament four years later and defeated J.R. Clynes for his party's leadership. He ended his political career as Lord President of the Council for two years, in political isolation as a result of making a power-sharing pact with the Conservatives four years prior. Winston Churchill gave him the nickname "boneless wonder" and in 1906 he made a pact with Gladstone's Liberals that bore fruit nearly two decades later. For 10 points, name this man who was t
He was voted out of his country's parliament for anti-war activities that included founding the Union of Democratic control and later the right-wing press printed a copy of his birth certificate, showing his illegitimate birth. He returned to parliament four years later and defeated J.R. Clynes for his party's leadership. He ended his political career as Lord President of the Council for two years, in political isolation as a result of making a power-sharing pact with the Conservatives four years prior. Winston Churchill gave him the nickname "boneless wonder" and in 1906 he made a pact with Gladstone's Liberals that bore fruit nearly two decades later. For 10 points, name this man who was twice succeeded by Stanley Baldwin, and who in 1924 and 1929 he became British Prime Minister, the first Laborite to do so.
He was voted out of his country's parliament for anti-war activities that included founding the Union of Democratic control and later the right-wing press printed a copy of his birth certificate, showing his illegitimate birth.
James Ramsay MacDonald