Abstract
Abstract Analysis of Independent Labour Party (ILP) politics after the electoral advance of 1922 is easily distorted by knowledge of what followed. In May 1923, Ramsay MacDonald assessed his first few months as leader. He had envisaged the expanded Parliamentary Labour Party as offering the chance to provide an effective and electorally credible opposition. H. N. Brailsford, who had been appointed editor of the New Leader – hitherto the Labour Leader — as part of Clifford Allen's campaign to modernize the ILP, saw the ILP commitment to constructive socialism and ethical propaganda as radically different from any theatrical dramatization of the class struggle. MacDonald envisioned a modernized propaganda paper which would offer information on party activities. This chapter examines Allen's desire to reform the ILP and how it failed, along with the demise of New Leader as a socialist paper.
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