NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 9 January 1924

9 JANUARY 1924

John Henry Whitley was re-elected as the Speaker of the House of Commons.

At a Socialist demonstration in London, Ramsay MacDonald described the spirit which would animate the party if called upon to furnish a Government, a responsibility, he declared, which he and his colleagues would by no means shirk.

A new political party, to be known as the Rural Party, was formed.