Within a quarter of a century, however, the Labour Party had taken the Liberal Party’s place in the British two-party system, and in 1924, under the leadership of Ramsay MacDonald, the Party briefly formed its first minority government. This administration was only to survive for a few months, but in 1929 Labour was again able to form a minority government which lasted until 1931. In an attempt...

This work has its origin in the Fellowship thesis for the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons of one of us. We would like to thank the thesis supervisor Peter Lee for his invariably prompt and helpful criticisms of this work. We would like to thank Niclas Sjogren (latterly of AstraZeneca Statistics Department) for the fruitful discussions of the ideas from which this work came. Mr. Christopher...