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Dates and statistics, 1929 to 1945. 30 May 1929 Labour wins the general election with Ramsay Macdonald as prime minister. TUC affiliated membership is 3.7 million - down from 4.2 million in 1926, 4.4 million in 1922, and 6.5 million in 1919-20. Labour Party membership rises steadily from 215,000 in 1928 to 447,000 in 1937; dips a little in 1938 and 39; then falls sharply during the World War to 218,000 (1942) before rising again to 487,000 in 1945, and a peak of 1,010,000 in 1952.

This week in history: March 1-7 28 February 2021 Aznar in June 1996, after being sworn in as prime minister On March 3, 1996, the right-wing Popular Party won a narrow victory in Spain’s national elections. It was only the second time in history that power passed from one party to another since the Spanish Civil War and the coming to power of the fascist dictator Francisco Franco. The election brought an end to more than 13 years of rule by Spain’s Socialist Party and its leader Felipe Gonz...

Letters Robin My big brother, Robin, passed away on December 19, aged 80. After a fall at home he was taken into hospital, where he caught Coronavirus and died of it three weeks later. Robin was always six years older than me, and five years older than our brother, Ken. I count myself lucky to have been the youngest, as parents always seem to be stressed about the eldest - and Robin was the eldest son of an eldest son, so I think he got a double dose of parent pressure - and, despite living a l...