
The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government
David Torrance
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
4:00pm
1 hour
Trinity College: Garden Room Levine Building
£8 - £15
Historian and constitutional expert David Torrance tells the story of the first UK Labour administration and the ‘wild men’ who shook up the establishment.
Torrance explains how the 1923 election was only the second time all adult men had been able to vote, and it opened the way to a new government of working-class men who had never before occupied the corridors of power. He shows how the new government shook up an establishment still reeling from the World War I and how the establishment fought back. Torrance says it was an extraordinary period in politics that laid the foundations for the Britain of today.
Torrance is a constitutional specialist at the House of Commons library. He has previously published biographies of Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon and David Steel.



















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