LOATH TO LEAVE HOME
NEW MINISTERS DUBIOUS ABOUT SHIFTING UNWANTED DOWNING STREET Reed. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, Thursday. While Mr. Baldwin was absent in the forenoon fixing up his new home in the West End, Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Snowden, and Mr. Thomas arrived unannounced at No. 10 Downing Street, and conferred for an hour. Mr. MacDonald afterwards issued his statement about unemployment. This tends to confirm the selection of Mr. Thomas to carry out the task. It is expected that Mr. MacDonald will announce the Cabinet tomorrow night. . " " -'•— -• There is a distinct possibility mat Lord Justice Sankey will fill the Lord Chancellorship. A new suggestion is that the Liberal King’s Counsel, Mr. W. A. Jowitt, will definitely be joining the Labour Party, also that Mr. George Lansbury will assist Mr. Thomas.
Lobby correspondents still say the situation threatens to be unprecedented since Walpole was the first occupant of 10 Downing Street. Mr. MacDonald does not desire to dig up the roots from his Hampstead home, but proposes to use the official residence only as an office and Cabinet meeting place, and not as a home. Mr. Snowden does not desire to live in No. 11. Mr. Clynes stated that in no circumstances would he again occupy it. The latest suggestion is that Mr. Thomas may he the occupant, though he may be loath to leave his lovely home at Dulwich.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290607.2.3
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 683, 7 June 1929, Page 1
Word Count
229LOATH TO LEAVE HOME Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 683, 7 June 1929, Page 1
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in