NEW: Scott Cresswell continues his series looking at the relationship between Labour PMs and the monarchy

This week he looks at the accidental leaders of the Second World War 👇🏼

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I just remembered that this was an actual moment in the House of Commons

This was a real ad

Neil Kinnock falls into the sea (1983)

If you haven't already, catch up with the ongoing series I'm writing for Tides of History about Labour Prime Ministers and the Monarchy. Here's the first part - expect more soon!

tidesofhistory.com/2022/10/24/lab…

30 years ago this month the press finally turned on the government for not understanding “the worries and fears of ordinary working people in depression-hit Britain” 👇🏼

On the day Jack Charlton gets a statue in Ashington, here’s the big man going back to his childhood home on Beatrice Street in 1972. I love this clip so much.

This is still such a banger

Enoch Powell used to say that “the West Indian or the Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman”

As Rishi Sunak becomes PM, a reminder of the role rugby league played in changing those attitudes 👇🏼

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The House divided:

✅356 (282 Conservatives and just 69 out of 289 Labour MPs)

⛔️244 (39 Conservatives and Labour MPs including Barbara Castle, Richard Crossman, Michael Foot, Peter Shore, Dennis Skinner, Neil Kinnock, Tony Benn, John Prescott, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan…)

Sean Bean, Alex Turner, Billy Casper and... Victor Radley, the Eastern Suburbs boy who got teary as he retraced his coalminer grandfather's roots through the pubs of the Republic of South Yorkshire and donated his debut Test jersey along the way AAP Sport canberratimes.com.au/story/7961288/…

What international #rugbyleague can be.

Great Britain Lions🇬🇧 #rlwc2021 🏟🇬🇧🦁

#OTD 1982. Harriet Harman becomes the MP for Peckham.

She says her victory was a rejection of a 'nasty campaign' by opposition canvassers who 'have stood on the doorstep after doorstep and said that a pregnant woman can not represent this constituency'

Tides of History Andrew Voss Rugby League World Cup 2021 Gallagher Australian Kangaroos FIRL - Federazione Italiana Rugby League RedVee.Net Would normally agree! 🥙👌 But Imperial Quarter opens today so has to be there this weekend 🙌