 After Baldwin was defeated at the 1929 British parliamentary election , Ramsay MacDonald of the Labour Party became prime minister . MacDonald desired a conference of Indian and British leaders in London to discuss India 's future , a course of action supported by Jinnah . Three Round Table Conferences followed over as many years , none of which resulted in a settlement . Jinnah was a delegate to the first two conferences , but was not invited to the last . He remained in Britain for most of the period 1930 through 1934 , practising as a barrister before the Privy Council , where he dealt with a number of Indian @-@ related cases . His biographers disagree over why he remained so long in Britain — Wolpert asserts that had Jinnah been made a Law Lord , he would have stayed for life , and that Jinnah alternatively sought a parliamentary seat . Early biographer Hector Bolitho denied that Jinnah sought to enter the British Parliament , while Jaswant Singh deems Jinnah 's time in Britain as a break or sabbatical from the Indian struggle . Bolitho called this period " Jinnah 's years of order and contemplation , wedged in between the time of early struggle , and the final storm of conquest " . 
