Editing Stanley Baldwin (section)

===1924 re-election===
The [[1924 United Kingdom general election|general election held in October 1924]] brought a landslide majority of 223 for the Conservative party, primarily at the expense of an unpopular [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]]. Baldwin campaigned on the "impracticability" of socialism, the [[Campbell Case]], the [[Zinoviev letter]] (which Baldwin thought was genuine, and the Conservatives leaked to the ''Daily Mail'' at a most damaging time to the Labour campaign; the letter is now widely believed to have been a forgery<ref>''The Hidden Hand'', BBC Parliament, 4 December 2007</ref>) and the Russian Treaties.<ref>Cowling, ''The Impact of Labour'', pp. 408–9.</ref> In a speech during the campaign Baldwin said:

<blockquote>It makes my blood boil to read of the way which Mr. Zinoviev is speaking of the Prime Minister today. Though one time there went up a cry, "Hands off Russia", I think it's time somebody said to Russia, "Hands off England".<ref>Middlemas and Barnes, p. 275.</ref></blockquote>