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Events on Monday 24 August 1931 1
1931UK National Government formedRamsay MacDonald forms a coalition amid the financial crisisThe Labour cabinet split over spending cuts, and Ramsay MacDonald formed an all-party National Government with Conservatives and Liberals. Labour expelled him from the party. The National Government won a landslide at the general election in October.