BRITISH POLITICS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 30 March 1917, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

ELECTORAL REFORM. WOMEN'S POSITION. CONVERSION OF LLOYD GEORGE LONDON, March 28. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Lloyd George, continuing his remarks on the proposal to adopt the Speaker/'s Conference electoral reform recommendations, said that the report was one of the most remarkable concordates of our political history. It would be criminal folly to throw away this opportunity of settling a vexed question which must be faced before peace. Parliamentary agreement was only possible if acted upon the lines of the commissioner's proposals, notably implified registration Regarding women suffrage; he confessed that his views had changed during the war. Previously he had opposed the reform on the grounds of public expediency and that he thought women might to work out their own salvation. They hav o worked it out during the war. "Could we have carried on without them?" he asked.