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Welcome. UK accounting professionals, verify at quickbooks.combo. UK slash verify. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History Magazine.

100 years ago, in 1924, Ramsey MacDonald became Britain's first ever Labour Prime Minister.

So how did McDonald drive the party to power? And what challenges did he face once he got there?

In conversation with Spencer Mizzin, David Torrance, the author of Wild Men, The Remarkable Story of Britain's

First Labour Government, tells a tale of working-class ministers, a terrified establishment,

and fake Bolshevik plots.

Hi, David, thank you very much for joining us today.

So, your new book is called The Wild Men, the remarkable story of Britain's

first Labour government. So my first question is, who are the Wild Men to whom the title refers?

And why were they described as such? So the wild men are members of the

First Labour government. So they're ministers, their MPs, some of them are members of the House of

Lords. But the wild men was a pejorative term, a sort of smear, if you like, used by political

opponents, so mainly conservatives at the time, but also by

the media, the Daily Mail, for example. And the implication, of course, was that they were some

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