Second National ministry

Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1924, 1929–1931 and 1931–1935.

The First National Ministry existed from 24 August 1931 until the reconstruction of the government, following the general election in October 1931. From 5 November 1931 until the resignation of the Prime Minister on 7 June 1935 the Second National Ministry was in office. This ministry was a "national government" coalition of National Labour, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party, and the Liberal National Party. Stanley Baldwin formed the Third National Ministry in 1935.

During the course of the Ministry the ministers from the Liberal Party, led by Sir Herbert Samuel, resigned over the adoption of a protectionist policy caused by the government negotiating the Ottawa Accords in 1932. The other Liberal faction in the Ministry, the Liberal National Party, had accepted the Conservative policy of protectionism before the National government had been formed so its ministers continued in office.

Cabinet

November 1931 – May 1935

Ramsay MacDonald – Prime Minister and Leader of the House of Commons
The Lord Sankey – Lord Chancellor
Stanley Baldwin – Lord President
The Viscount Snowden – Lord Privy Seal
Neville Chamberlain – Chancellor of the Exchequer
Sir Herbert Samuel – Home Secretary
Sir John Simon – Foreign Secretary
Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister – Colonial Secretary
Jimmy Thomas – Dominions Secretary
The Viscount Hailsham – Secretary of State for War and Leader of the House of Lords
Sir Samuel Hoare – Secretary of State for India
The Marquess of Londonderry – Secretary for Air
Sir Archibald Sinclair – Secretary of State for Scotland
Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell – First Lord of the Admiralty
Walter Runciman – President of the Board of Trade
Sir John Gilmour – Minister of Agriculture
Sir Donald Maclean – President of the Board of Education
Henry Betterton – Minister of Labour
Hilton Young – Minister of Health
William Ormsby-Gore – First Commissioner of Works

Changes

June 1932 - Lord Irwin succeeds Donald Maclean (deceased) as President of the Board of Education
September 1932 – Stanley Baldwin succeeds Philip Snowden as Lord Privy Seal, remaining also Lord President. John Gilmour succeeds Herbert Samuel as Home Secretary. Godfrey Collins succeeds Archibald Sinclair as Scottish Secretary. Walter Elliot succeeds Gilmour as Minister of Agriculture.
December 1933 – Stanley Baldwin ceases to be Lord Privy Seal, and his successor in that office is not in the cabinet. He continues as Lord President. Kingsley Wood enters the cabinet as Postmaster-General
June 1934 – Oliver Stanley succeeds Henry Betterton as Minister of Labour

Key

= Member of National Labour
= Member of the Conservative Party
= Member of the Liberal Party
= Member of the Liberal National Party

List of Ministers

Members of the Cabinet are in bold face.

Office	Name		Dates	Notes
Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Leader of the House of Commons	Ramsay MacDonald	National Labour	5 November 1931 – 7 June 1935
Lord Chancellor	John Sankey, 1st Baron Sankey	National Labour	November 1931	created Viscount Sankey 30 January 1932
Lord President of the Council	Stanley Baldwin	Conservative	November 1931
Lord Privy Seal	Philip Snowden	National Labour	5 November 1931	created Viscount Snowden 24 November 1931
	Stanley Baldwin	Conservative	29 September 1932
	Anthony Eden	Conservative	31 December 1933
Chancellor of the Exchequer	Neville Chamberlain	Conservative	5 November 1931
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury	David Margesson	Conservative	10 November 1931
Financial Secretary to the Treasury	Walter Elliot	Conservative	November 1931
	Leslie Hore-Belisha	Liberal National	29 September 1932
	Duff Cooper	Conservative	29 June 1934
Lords of the Treasury	Walter Womersley	Conservative	12 November 1931 – 7 June 1935	knighted 1934
	Victor Warrender	Conservative	12 November 1931 – 30 September 1932
	Geoffrey Shakespeare	Liberal National	12 November 1931 – 30 September 1932
	Austin Hudson	Conservative	12 November 1931 – 12 April 1935
	Lambert Ward	Conservative	12 November 1931 – 1 May 1935
	George Davies	Conservative	11 October 1932 – 7 June 1935
	James Blindell	Liberal National	30 September 1932 – 7 June 1935
	James Stuart	Conservative	1 May 1935 – 7 June 1935
	Archibald Southby	Conservative	23 April 1935 – 7 June 1935
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Rufus Isaacs	Liberal	24 August 1931 - 5 November 1931
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	John Simon	Liberal National	5 November 1931
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	Anthony Eden	Conservative	November 1931
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs	James Stanhope	Conservative	18 January 1934
Secretary of State for the Home Department	Herbert Samuel	Liberal	November 1931
Secretary of State for the Home Department	John Gilmour	Conservative	28 September 1932
Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department	Oliver Stanley	Conservative	November 1931
	Douglas Hacking	Conservative	22 February 1933
	Harry Crookshank	Conservative	29 June 1934
First Lord of the Admiralty	Bolton Eyres-Monsell	Conservative	5 November 1931
Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty	Edward Stanley	Conservative	10 November 1931
Civil Lord of the Admiralty	Euan Wallace	Conservative	10 November 1931
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	John Gilmour	Conservative	November 1931
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries	Walter Elliot	Conservative	28 September 1932
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries	Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr	National Labour	10 November 1931
Secretary of State for Air	Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry	Conservative	5 November 1931
Under-Secretary of State for Air	Philip Sassoon	Conservative	November 1931
Secretary of State for the Colonies	Philip Cunliffe-Lister	Conservative	5 November 1931
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies	Robert William Hamilton	Liberal	November 1931
Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies	Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth	Conservative	29 September 1932
Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs	Jimmy Thomas	National Labour	November 1931
Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs	Malcolm MacDonald	National Labour	November 1931
President of the Board of Education	Donald Maclean	Liberal	November 1931
President of the Board of Education	Edward Wood, 1st Baron Irwin	Conservative	15 June 1932	succeeded as 3rd Viscount Halifax 19 January 1934
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education	Herwald Ramsbotham	Conservative	10 November 1931
Minister of Health	Hilton Young	Conservative	5 November 1931
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health	Ernest Brown	Liberal National	10 November 1931
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health	Geoffrey Shakespeare	Liberal National	30 September 1932
Secretary of State for India	Samuel Hoare	Conservative	November 1931
Under-Secretary of State for India	Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian	Liberal	10 November 1931
Under-Secretary of State for India	Rab Butler	Conservative	29 September 1932
Minister of Labour	Henry Betterton	Conservative	November 1931
Minister of Labour	Oliver Stanley	Conservative	29 June 1934
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Labour	Robert Hudson	Conservative	10 November 1931
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster	J. C. C. Davidson	Conservative	10 November 1931
Paymaster General	Ernest Lamb, 1st Baron Rochester	National Labour	23 November 1931
Minister for Pensions	George Tryon	Conservative	November 1931
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Pensions	Cuthbert Headlam	Conservative	10 November 1931	Office vacant from 29 September 1932
Postmaster-General	Kingsley Wood	Conservative	10 November 1931	Office in Cabinet from 20 December 1933
Assistant Postmaster-General	Graham White	Liberal	November 1931
Assistant Postmaster-General	Ernest Nathaniel Bennett	National Labour	21 October 1932
Secretary of State for Scotland	Archie Sinclair	Liberal	November 1931
Secretary of State for Scotland	Godfrey Collins	Liberal National	28 September 1932
Under-Secretary of State for Scotland	Noel Skelton	Conservative	November 1931
President of the Board of Trade	Walter Runciman	Liberal National	5 November 1931
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade	Leslie Hore-Belisha	Liberal National	10 November 1931
Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade	Leslie Burgin	Liberal National	29 September 1932
Secretary for Overseas Trade	John Colville	Conservative	10 November 1931
Secretary for Mines	Isaac Foot	Liberal	November 1931
Secretary for Mines	Ernest Brown	Liberal National	30 September 1932
Minister of Transport	James Pybus	Liberal National	November 1931
	Oliver Stanley	Conservative	22 February 1933
	Leslie Hore-Belisha	Liberal National	29 June 1934
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport	Ivor Windsor-Clive, 2nd Earl of Plymouth	Conservative	25 November 1931
Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport	Cuthbert Headlam	Conservative	29 September 1932	Office vacant 5 July 1934
Secretary of State for War and Leader of the House of Lords	Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham	Conservative	5 November 1931
Under-Secretary of State for War	James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope	Conservative	10 November 1931
Under-Secretary of State for War	Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal	Conservative	24 January 1934
Financial Secretary to the War Office	Duff Cooper	Conservative	November 1931
Financial Secretary to the War Office	Douglas Hacking	Conservative	29 June 1934
First Commissioner of Works	William Ormsby-Gore	Conservative	5 November 1931
Attorney General	William Jowitt	National Labour	November 1931
Attorney General	Thomas Inskip	Conservative	26 January 1932
Solicitor General	Thomas Inskip	Conservative	November 1931
	Boyd Merriman	Conservative	26 January 1932
	Donald Somervell	Conservative	29 September 1933
Lord Advocate	Craigie Aitchison	National Labour	November 1931
	Wilfrid Normand	Conservative	2 October 1933
	Douglas Jamieson	Conservative	28 March 1935
Solicitor General for Scotland	Wilfrid Normand	Conservative	10 November 1931
	Douglas Jamieson	Conservative	2 October 1933
	Thomas Cooper	Conservative	15 May 1935
Treasurer of the Household	Frederick Thomson	Conservative	12 November 1931
Treasurer of the Household	George Penny	Conservative	1 May 1935
Comptroller of the Household	Walter Rea	Liberal	12 November 1931
	George Penny	Conservative	30 September 1932
	Victor Warrender	Conservative	1 May 1935
Vice-Chamberlain of the Household	George Penny	Conservative	12 November 1931
	Victor Warrender	Conservative	30 September 1932
	Lambert Ward	Conservative	1 May 1935
Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms	George Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan	Conservative	12 November 1931
Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard	Donald Howard, 3rd Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal	Conservative	12 November 1931
Lords in Waiting	Arthur Chichester, 4th Baron Templemore	Conservative	12 November 1931 – 24 January 1934
	Henry Gage, 6th Viscount Gage	Conservative	12 November 1931 – 7 June 1935
	Wentworth Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale	Liberal	12 November 1931 – 28 September 1932
	Geoffrey FitzClarence, 5th Earl of Munster	Conservative	24 January 1934 – 7 June 1935
	Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham	Conservative	24 January 1934 – 7 June 1935

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Preceded by First National Ministry	Government of the United Kingdom 1931–1935	Succeeded by Third National Ministry

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