BRITISH POLITICS

Hokitika Guardian, 10 September 1928, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS

200 M’S.P. RETIRING. f , (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) I | LONDON, September 8. i Tho “Daily Express” oil its front . page features an announcement that more than twenty per cent of the i members 'of the House of Commons ' have already decided not to seek reelection at next June’s General Election. . { Political organisers in close touch with the parties predict that tho figure is likely to grow to 200 members.. The news follows on the heels of the announcement that at least four members of the Cabinet will retire at the end of the present Parliament. Tho ' “Daily Express” says these are: Lord Birkenhead, Sir Austen Chamberlain, Air IV. C. Bridgeman and Sir IVm. Mitchell-Thompson. • The latest development means that the Conservative Party have now to concern themselves with tho selection of scores of new candidates for the seats already held by the party, liecause by far the greatest retirements have taken place among the Conservative hack benches. In one resifett these are strangely assorted, and they include young men for whom a future has been prophesied, middle-aged men who have plodded on without especial distinction, and elderly men with years of political service, who are suffering either from tiredness or disappointment. Thus even before the noise and tumult of the General Election begins to swell, it is certain that tho, complexion of the next Parliament and the next Ministry will bo vastly different.