In 1900, the British Labour Party was founded with Ramsay MacDonald as its secretary.

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In 1929 it happened to Ramsay MacDonald, whose economic conservatism became legendary.

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The first election broadcast was a speech delivered to a meeting by Ramsay MacDonald, the first Labour prime minister, during the 1924 campaign.

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When conservatism consolidated power instead, Mr Marquand by now a distinguished academic, with the standard biography of Ramsay Macdonald to his credit started to rethink his political experience.

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We believed then that distance had added no enchantment to Stanley Baldwin, a Tory centrist, and Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's last previous too right-wing Scots Labour prime minister.

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But these boundaries have been blurred at least since 1929, when Ramsay Macdonald put George Steward in Downing Street with orders to cultivate selected journalists and so counter the bias of the Tory press barons.

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