NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 23 January 1924
23 JANUARY 1924
Stanley Baldwin resigned as Prime Minister and Ramsay MacDonald was asked to form a Government. MacDonald confirmed that he would be the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary with Lord Haldane became the Lord Chancellor.
The House of Commons agreed to the proposal made by Stanley Baldwin that there should be a three week adjournment.
Viscount Inchcape and Lord Banbury of Southam took the oath in the House of Lords.
