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Stanley Baldwin, first earl Baldwin of Bewdley, as British prime minister from 1923 to 1929 and from 1935 to 1937 responded to the general strike of 1926 with the trade disputes act of 1927, an anti-union bill, and facilitated the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936.
This knight of the Garter, privy councilor, Conservative politician, and statesman served three terms as major figure on the political scene in the interwar years in the kingdom again.