BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1922, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

INDEPENDENT LABOR. WELCOME AN ELECTION. ATTACK ON THE PREMIER. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Oct. 17, 7.45 p.m. London, Oct. 16. The National Council of the Independent Labor Party passed a resolution welcoming the prospect of an immediate general election, and describing Mr. Lloyd George’s Manchester speech as a puerile attempt to justify the Coalition’s ruinous home and foreign policies, to which it attributes the present serious depression and ruin in Europe. The resolution also describes Mr. Lloyd George’s defence of the Coalition s mishandling of the Near East crisis as a travesty of the facts, calling on the people not to trust any leader of the old diplomacy, but to return a Labor majority pledged to reconstruct the conditions at home and abroad on the lines of co-opera-tion for the benefit of all. Only by such new policies and outlook can the world be saved from further disaster.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PREMIER’S NEXT SPEECH. London. October 16. Mr. Chamberlain will address a conference of Uir’onist Ministers- and members of Parliament at the Carlton Club on Thursday. A vote is expected on the party’s election policy. Mr. Lloyd George, who to-day conferred with Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Birkenhead and Mr. Churchill will speak at Newcastle on Saturday.