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Thread #36698   Message #508465
Posted By: Snuffy
17-Jul-01 - 08:34 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Scottish MPs
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Scottish MPs
GrimmondJo Grimond - Liberal leader of the 50s/60s. MP for orkney or Shetland

HumeSir Alec Douglas-Home resigned his peerage (14th earl of Home) in '63 or '64 to become tory leader and Prime Minister. He owned much of the Borders, but sat as MP fro Kinross & West Perthshire. He later was given a life peerage as Lord Home of the Hirsel

Rumsey, MacJames Ramsay Macdonald - first Labour prime minister in the '20s. A Scot. Split the labour movement in the 30's by leading an all-party coalition National Government, but most socialists walked out. Still thought of as a traitor to the labour movement by many.