WI: Chamberlain loses to Mosley

In the 1923 general elections, Conservative MP Neville Chamberlain almost lost the election for the seat of Birmingham Ladywood against one Oswald Mosley, who at that time was still a member of the Labour Party. So what happens if Chamberlain loses the Ladywood seat to Mosley?
 

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Mosley has more ground to stand on within the Labour Party, as EdT showed in A Greater Britain. Not sure if thats enough for him to get his memorandum to become party policy though. Really depends on that.

Chamberlain on the other hand gets some other seat soon enough, unless he decides to walk away from it all that seems unlikely. Someone else will have to offer if that means the doom of his political aspirations though.
 
It was in the general election in October 1924 that Neville Chamberlain almost lost Birmingham Ladywood to Mosley. If the seventy-two year old Sir Francis William Lowe, agreed to resign as Conservative MP for Birmingham Edgbaston [majority of 13,078 in a straight fight with Labour] Chamberlain could return to the House of Commons in a by-election as early as December 1924.

When Ramsay MacDonald formed his government in June 1929 he made Mosley Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster outside the cabinet. I think it is unlikely that he would appoint him to the cabinet because others had greater claims to cabinet posts having been MPs for longer than Mosley.
 
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