Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, or simply Stanley Baldwin, is a British politician who has served as Prime Minister twice and has been the leader of the Conservative Party since 1923. Baldwin first served as Prime Minister between May 1923 to January 1924, then again from November 1924 to June 1929, before losing the 1929 general election to the Labour Party. Since then, he has been the Leader of the Opposition to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and the incumbent Prime Minister Oswald Mosley.

As Prime Minister, Baldwin oversaw Britain transition into a highly anti-socialist and sceptical nation because of the rise of the German Socialist Republic, being the main government leader to stamp out the revolutionary efforts of the 1926 General Strike. Despite this, he was pro-liberal progressivism, and encouraged equal franchise in 1928. Baldwin blames the ineffective leadership of MacDonald for the failure of the 1931 election, and has since reminisced the possibility of returning to power as Prime Minister, lest he be replaced by another such as the most likely candidate, Winston Churchill.