Baldwin's second administration
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The second Baldwin government was formed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 1924 by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of the Conservative Party and replaced the first MacDonald government . The government consisted exclusively of Conservative Party ministers and was in office until June 4, 1929, after which it was replaced by the second MacDonald government.
Reigned 1924 to 1929
In the previous general election on October 29, 1924 - the third election within two years - Ramsay MacDonald's Labor Party received only 151 seats out of 615 seats in the House of Commons , while the Conservative Party had a clear absolute majority with 412 seats. At the same time, the new elections led to a decisive reduction in the influence of the Liberal Party , which only had 40 members. Other parties had 12 mandates.
On April 28, 1925, Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill announced in the House of Commons the return to the gold standard of the currency, which had been abandoned in 1914 , which then led to the overvaluation of the pound sterling with resulting export difficulties. The miners 'strike over the threat of wage cuts expanded into a nine-day general strike from May 3 to 12, 1926, which the well-prepared Baldwin government met successfully and which ended with a defeat for the workers' movement, which was also a series of labor disputes since the end of the first World war ended . At an Empire conference from October 19 to November 18, 1926, the Balfour Report defined the status of the Dominions , according to which these "autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate to one another in internal and external affairs" , but "nevertheless united by a common bond with the Crown and freely associated as members of the Commonwealth of Nations ".
A trade union law passed on June 28, 1927 prohibited future sympathy strikes and the transfer of union dues to the Labor Party was only permitted with the consent of the members. In July 1928 there was a reform of the electoral law, which led to a legal equality of women and men, according to which women at the age of 21 were also given the right to vote.
Although in the general election on May 30, 1929 , the Conservative Tories received the most votes with 38.1 percent, the Labor Party (37.1 percent) emerged from the election as the party with the most seats for the first time. Of 615 seats, the Labor Party had 287 seats and the Conservative Party had 260 seats, while the Liberal Party had 59 members. Subsequently, the previous opposition leader Ramsay MacDonald formed a minority government tolerated by the Liberal Party .
minister
The Cabinet consisted of the following ministers:
| Office | Surname | Political party | Beginning of the term of office | Term expires |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| prime minister | Stanley Baldwin | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Lord President of the Council |
George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour |
Conservative Party Conservative Party |
November 6, 1924 April 27, 1925 |
March 20, 1925 June 4, 1929 |
| Lord Chancellor |
George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave Douglas Hogg, 1st Baron Hailsham |
Conservative party | November 6, 1924 March 28, 1928 |
March 28, 1928 June 4, 1929 |
| Lord Seal Keeper | James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | Winston Churchill | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Foreign minister | Austen Chamberlain | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Interior minister | William Joynson-Hicks | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| First Lord of the Admiralty | William Bridgeman | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries |
Edward Wood Walter Guinness |
Conservative Party Conservative Party |
November 6, 1924 November 4, 1924 |
November 4, 1925 June 4, 1929 |
| Aviation Minister | Samuel Hoare | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Attorney General | Douglas Hogg | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | March 28, 1928 |
| Minister for the Colonies | Leopold Stennett Amery | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Minister for Dominion Affairs | Leopold Stennett Amery | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Minister of Education | Eustace Percy | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Minister of Health | Neville Chamberlain | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Minister for India |
Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel |
Conservative Party Conservative Party |
November 6, 1924 October 18, 1928 |
October 18, 1928 June 4, 1929 |
| Minister of Labor | Arthur Steel-Maitland | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster |
Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun |
Conservative Party Conservative Party |
November 6, 1924 October 19, 1927 |
October 19, 1927 June 4, 1929 |
| Minister for Scotland | John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Minister of Commerce | Philip Lloyd-Greame | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Minister of War | Laming Worthington-Evans | Conservative party | November 6, 1924 | June 4, 1929 |
| Minister for Public Works |
William Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry |
Conservative Party Conservative Party |
November 6, 1924 October 18, 1928 |
October 18, 1928 June 4, 1929 |
Background literature
- The big Ploetz. The encyclopedia of world history , Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 35th edition, 2008, p. 1049, ISBN 978-3-525-32008-2