When Ramsay MacDonald became prime minister 100 years ago today, he took the values instilled in him from his Lossiemouth upbringing and put them on a national stage.

Watch Tom Sheldrick's report. It is 100 years since Ramsay MacDonald became the first Labour Prime Minister and the politician continues to divide opinion today.

Joan MacDonald and her father, Ramsay, at Chequers on a picture that she mentions in her diary was taken on February 2, 1924. The diary and the pictures are now with Joan’s daughter, Victoria ...

David Torrance assesses Ramsay MacDonald as the first Labour prime minister in 1924, exploring how he navigates the tensions between radicalism and respectability within the party. Show more It's ...

Keir Hardie sits on the inaugural plinth in the pantheon of the Labour imagination, whereas Ramsay MacDonald was knocked off his and banished from memory 90 years ago. His indelible sin was to break ...

The other is that Sir Keir is a throwback to the very first Labour Prime Minister, Ramsay MacDonald (1866-1937), architect of 1931’s Great Betrayal. Like Starmer, MacDonald adopted socialism when ...

Most of us, who are interested in politics, would be able to answer that evergreen pub quiz question: “Who was the UK’s first Labour Prime Minister?” Ramsay MacDonald, I hear you cry. But when pushed ...

IN his opening address, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald said that a little more than a generation ago, oil was displacing coal as a source of power, and chemists began to wonder whether it was not possible ...

MacDonald was undoubtedly a remarkable man. Lenin despised him as a mere bourgeois reformist, but to be despised by Lenin was a mark of human decency. MacDonald was born in the Highlands of Scotland ...

Tense and weary one 10 a. m. last week Scot MacDonald boarded The Flying Scotsman. As she puffed out of London a dining car steward offered place tickets for lunch and the Prime Minister took one.