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=== Background === On 22 January 1924, the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] formed a government in the United Kingdom for the first time. However, it was a [[minority government]] and therefore liable to fall if the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]] and [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberals]] combined against it. In foreign policy, the government used its executive powers to offer official recognition of the [[Soviet Union]] in February 1924. It also proposed to lend it money and to open up trade, but parliament mostly obstructed these measures. On 8 October 1924, the Labour government of [[Ramsay MacDonald]] suffered defeat in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] on a [[motion of no confidence]] forwarded by the Liberals, who had until then supported the continuation of the minority government while also blocking most of its signature policy initiatives. Instead of resigning, MacDonald obtained permission from [[George V|King George V]] for a dissolution of [[Parliament of the United Kingdom|Parliament]] and the holding of a new election. The immediate cause of the parliamentary defeat had been the government's decision to drop the prosecution of communist editor [[John Ross Campbell]] under the [[Incitement to Mutiny Act 1797]], for publication of an open letter in ''[[Workers' Weekly (UK)|Workers' Weekly]]'' calling on soldiers to "let it be known that, neither in the class war nor in a military war, will you turn your guns on your fellow workers, but instead will line up with your fellow workers in an attack upon the exploiters and capitalists, and will use your arms on the side of your own class." [[1924 United Kingdom general election|A general election]] was scheduled for 29 October.<ref>A.J.P. Taylor, ''English History: 1914β1945'' (1965), pp. 218, 225</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Keith Jeffery|title=The Secret History of MI6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=52nYgUsVn9QC&pg=PT195|year=2010|publisher=Penguin|pages=195β196|isbn=978-1101443460}}</ref>
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