Stanley Baldwin

Unlike those flawed titans it was the more humdrum "cabinet of faithful husbands" I think the expression was Stanley Baldwin's, which failed to match the challenge of the third great crisis: the collapse of 1929-31 which plunged Britain into the Great Depression.

The Guardian World News Michael White 2011

It may have been that the walls of most village cottages were running with damp, their bedrooms overcrowded and their sanitation primitive in the extreme, but both conservatives, such as Stanley Baldwin, and radicals, such as Conrad Noel, the communist vicar of Thaxted in

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

In the 1930s, the Conservatives led by Stanley Baldwin were electorally dominant in these circumstances.

Is David Cameron turning into the Stanley Baldwin of the 21st century? 2011

Stanley Baldwin, prime minister three times in the 1920s and 1930s, and Margaret Thatcher, the party's two most electorally successful leaders, won record electoral victories despite imposing deep spending cuts and presiding over sluggish economic growth.

Ed Miliband risks Tory trap on public spending, says shadow minister 2011

With British fears mounting, Stanley Baldwin—the once and future prime minister—bluntly warned Parliament in 1932: "The bomber will always get through."

Allied in the Quest for Radar Henry Petroski 2011

In Cameron's Trap, Lessons for Labour from the 1930s and 1940s, the authors say that Cameron is on course to become the Stanley Baldwin of the 21st century:The accurate comparison for David Cameron is not Margaret Thatcher or Harold Macmillan, but Stanley Baldwin.

Is David Cameron turning into the Stanley Baldwin of the 21st century? 2011

Stanley Baldwin, then leader of the opposition Conservatives in 1931, was the target of a campaign for his ouster by Lord Beaverbrook, owner of the Daily Express, and Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail.

Scandalized Britain ponders press reform 2011

David Cameron is compared by two Labour historians to Stanley Baldwin who led the Conservative party to its greatest ever victory during the Great Depression.

Is David Cameron turning into the Stanley Baldwin of the 21st century? 2011

Stanley Baldwin, then leader of the opposition Conservatives in 1931, was the target of a campaign for his ouster by Lord Beaverbrook, owner of the Daily Express, and Lord Rothermere, owner of the Daily Mail.

Scandalized Britain ponders press reform 2011

Stanley Baldwin, the Conservative party's most electorally successful leader, is back in fashion.

Is David Cameron turning into the Stanley Baldwin of the 21st century? 2011