BRITISH POLITICS.
AN INDEPENDENT GROUP. FIRST MEMBER ELECTED. By Telegraph.— rress Assn.—Copyright. Received Feb. 23, 2.5 pm. London, Feb. 21. Mr. Horatio Bottomley is delighted at Mr. Palmer's success in tiie VVrekin byelection and describes is as a ''Bottomley bombshell, the beginning of the movement in which \vc are going to put up a candidate at almost every byelection in the hope of forming a big Independent group." Mr. Palmer is assistant editor of Mr. Bottomley's paper John Bull. It is believed the women's vote was largely reThe Wrckin by-election resulted: Palmer (Independent)- 0207, Duncan (Labor) 5729, Baylev (Coalition Liberal) 47u0 [ln the general election a Coalition Liberal was returned unopposed.]
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1920, Page 5
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