... to control the Government, and expected it to confront issues such as nationalisation. The trade union leaders were uncompromising and unrealistic, so there was great friction with the Labour party leaders. In addition, some left-wing party members wished to pursue unrealistic socialist policies, to deliberately engineer defeat, allowing Labour to rally support in the country in the next election for true radical social reform. The leaders of the party realised that to remain in Government, they would need to have Liberal support, and prove that they were capable in government, and thus followed moderate policies. The tension internally meant that Labour was less united to deal with Governmental issues, and was, therefore, less effective than it could have been, this was an important factor in its downfall. As the leader of the Labour party, MacDonald was responsible for managing the internal pressures of the party, this was a difficult task, at ...

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