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In the politics of the United Kingdom, a National Government is a coalition of some or all of the major political parties. In a historical sense, it refers primarily to the governments of Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain which held office from 1931 until 1940.[citation needed]
The all-party coalitions of H. H. Asquith and David Lloyd George in the First World War were sometimes referred to as National Governments at the time, but are now more commonly called Coalition Governments.[citation needed] The term "National Government" was chosen to dissociate itself from negative connotations of the earlier coalitions.[1][better source needed] Similarly the all-party government of Winston Churchill in the Second World War was generally referred to as the National Government at the time.
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