In 1931, Lansbury became leader of the party, a position he held until 1935. Lansbury was a pacifist, and publicly disagreed with a TUC resolution (in September 1935) that Italian aggression against Abyssinia must be stopped if necessary by force. At the Labour Party conference in October Ernest Bevin[?] launched a famous attack on Lansbury. Heavily defeated in the vote, Lansbury resigned as leader.
He was an unusually popular politician, an elder statesman with a considerable following.
George Lansbury was the grandfather of both Angela Lansbury and Oliver Postgate.
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