The Prime Minister of Britain in 1927 was Stanley Baldwin. He was Prime Minister from 1924-29 and again from 1935-37. During Ramsay MacDonald's third premiership of 1931-35, real prime ministerial power was wielded by Baldwin. He is widely regarded as one of the very worst prime ministers that Britain has ever had. He was a defeatist through and through and the key architect of appeasement. Churchill turned down the invitation to his funeral in 1947 with the comment, 'It would have been better if he had never been born".
(Ramsay McDonald had already headed 2 Labour governments when he formed the so-called National Government with Baldwin, supported by the Conservatives plus a very few Labour MP's (soon to be known as "National Labour") and a few Liberals (also to be known as "National Liberals"). By the 1945 general election both National Labour and National Liberal disappeared as party titles, their candidates standing, more honestly, described as "Conservatives")
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