BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1922, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. BRITISH POLITICS. LONDON, Nov. 1. Mr C. B. Fry, the cricketer, is contesting Brighton as an Independent Liberal.

Mr Lloyd George, owing to a bad throat, will be confined to his house for the next few days.

LABOUR AND PALESTINE. LONDON, Nov. 1. Jit Hon A. Henderson has written to the Jewish Correspondence Bureau, ■ stating that the Labour Party lias jio * sympathy with those who would abandon the responsibilities in Palestine which the British Government “had voluntarily assumed before the whole world.” The Labour Party believed the responsibilities in Palestine. should be fulfilled to the utmost to ensure economic prosperity, political autonomy, and spiritual freedom to both the Jews and Arabs.

STATE OF PARTIES. LONDON, Oct. 31 The present state of parties in the House of Commons is:— Coalition Unionists 313 Coalition Liberals 118 Labour 77 Liberals 3(3 Ulster Unionists 22 Unionists :.. il Independents 2& Socialists ...: :: 1 BRITISH -MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. LABOR SWEPT AWAY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 2. Labour appears to have been smash-, iiigly defeated at the municipal elections in England and AVales, the rout being overwhelming in the great industrial centres. On a majority of the new council Labour retains only a shred of their former power. In several councils it was swept away entirely. The Labour debacle is also striking many parts- of London. Fot instance, at Greenwich where they lost thirteen seatsj at Shoreditch 22. The Conservatives are the principal gainers in both cases. Labour also lost nine seats in Liverpool, five in Hull, seven in Stoke, eight in West Hartlepool. No Labourite was returned in Aiiddleton, the great cotton centre.