BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1919, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

A STEW PARTY SUGGESTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Dec. IS. Signs of the foundering of the Lloyd Georgee. Ministry after the stormy session are causing many anticipations, but a House of Commons including nearly a hundred Government placemen and numbers who do not expect reelection is not easily dissolved. Nevertheless, bitter differences are prising within the Coalition. Liberals refuse to have the slightest truck with the tariff, while the Unionists are making the Home Rule scheme most difficult and the extremists are trying for the sternest military repression in answer to the outrages in IrelandLobbyists repeat the charge that Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Churchill are forming a Centra Party as a reply to the Unionist Party resolutions denouncing his Manchester speech and insisting on the independence and solidarity of the Unionists as a separate party. The failure of the anti-profiteer-ing legislation has cost the Government a lot of support from the country.—United Service.

[ln a recent issue of- the Review of Reviews there is a striking article foreshadowing the coming of a new Government. The importance of the Labor Party is stressed, and attention is also given to the formation of a Centre Party. The burden of the article is a suggestion that the coming man of the day is Lord Robert Cecil, who, though he differs with Labor on many matters, is with them in principle in a great many things. The appearance of a Centre Party is touched on in the article and it is significantly mentioned that on two separate occasions Mr. Winston Churchill and Lord Robert Cecil were the principal guests at gatherings of followers of the Centre Party.]