Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan lashe zaben 1922, Bonar Law, rashin lafiya, ya yi murabus a watan Mayu 1923. Kodayake suna da rinjaye a cikin gwamnati, har yanzu Tories sun rarrabu, kamar yadda yawancin waɗanda suka kasance a ƙarshen ƙarshen haɗin gwiwar suka ƙi karɓar ofishin a cikin majalisar dokokin Law. Rashin su ya bayyana dalilin da ya sa ba a san Stanley Baldwin ba har yanzu ya zama shugaban jam'iyyar shekaru biyu bayan da ya fara shiga babban mukamin minista. Baldwin ya kira zabe a 1923 a kan batun haraji amma ya rasa mafi rinjaye; Ramsay MacDonald ya kafa gwamnatin 'yan kwadago. Baldwin ya dawo bayan ya lashe zaben 1924. Gwamnatinsa ta biyu ta kawo Austen Chamberlain a matsayin Sakataren Harkokin Waje, Winston Churchill a Ma'aikatar Kudi, da Neville Chamberlain a Ma'aikatar Lafiya. Baldwin ya yi amfani da ƙwarewa a cikin General Strike a 1926
kuma ya zartar da Dokar Rikice-rikicen Kasuwanci ta 1927 don dakile ikon kungiyoyin kwadago. Baldwin ya rasa babban zaben na 1929 kuma ci gaba da jagorancinsa ya kasance yana fuskantar mummunan zargi daga barons na Rothermere da Beaverbrook.