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Sunday 25 April 2010
What Nick Clegg Wants
Ramsay MacDonald was able to insist on remaining Prime Minister as his price for a coalition with the Tories, even though there were vastly more Tory than National Labour MPs. And that was without more people's having voted for his National Labour breakaway than had voted Tory. On the contrary, the Tories had won an absolute majority of the votes cast, the last time that that has happened to date, and probably the last time ever.
If you're talking about the 1929 result, the Tories actually got more votes than Labour.
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No, 1931.
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