James Ramsay MacDonald to James Leatham: letter Letter, marked 'Private', from James Ramsay MacDonald, 10 Downing Street, London, to James Leatham. Defends the actions of himself and his colleagues in agreeing to serve in a coalition government and believes that they had rendered Labour a great service. He also criticises the ‘substitution of Popularism for Socialism’ and the policy of vote catching prevalent in the Labour Party. 19 May 1933