"The most important message of all is that no society, no country can ever survive without a profound sense of social justice – and unless we bring social justice back to this country, this country cannot be healthy and cannot be successful”
#OTD 1994. John Smith delivers a speech at Labour's European Gala Dinner
Leading by 20pts in the polls, he tells the audience: “There is a great hunger amongst our people for a return to the politics of conviction and idealism”
The speech would prove to be his final act. 👇
“Britain’s future depends on investment in the skills of our able people, investment in our industry, particularly our manufacturing industry”
“One of the ambitions of the next Labour Government is to create the best educated and trained workforce in the whole of Europe. In workforce – I include management”
The Special Relationship: President's and Labour Prime Minister's
From MacDonald and Hoover to Brown and Obama (and the one that got away @JoeBiden )
Ramsay MacDonald became the first British Prime Minister to visit the United States as a guest of the President
US media were excited by his daughter Ishbel - as people "lined the streets of broadway" to observe her fashion taste
MacDonald claimed that ‘both nations have a great role to play in the advancement not only of disarmament but of many other democratic and moral issues with which their history is associated’
His aim was to agree a Naval treaty that would ‘narrow the Atlantic’.