BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1922, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

A LIBERAL’S RENUNCIATION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CopjTlght. London. Nov. 7. Lord Novar, speaking in Edinburgh, said that he had no apology to make for taking office; it was necessary. The old Liberal Party to which he had belonged was split up and had disappeared and he did not feel able to support either section. For the sake of foreign policy alone it was of the utmost importance that the Prime Minister should have a strong majority to enable him to speak in the name of tho country and to follow a consistent policy. The Labor Party’s manifesljo had been drawn up by extremists. [Lord Novar, who was Governor-Gen-eral of Australia till 1920, is Secretary for Scotland and a member of the Cabinet.] LIBERAL REUNION DENIED. London, Nov. 7. Mr. Asquith, speaking at Dulwich, contradicted the statement that at a meeting of Liberal leaders he proposed a. Liberal reunion, which his colleagues rejected, and that consequently he abandoned the proposal. There was not a word of truth in the fable that all Liberals were anxious for reunion. An even more fatuous -fabrication was the story that, in the event of the present Government not. obtaining a Parliamentary majority, there would be some nebulous combination between Mr. Bonar Law’s forces and his own. The suggestion, of shich an alliance was too fantastic for a midsummer night’s dream. Mr. Asquith added that if they gave the Government a blank cheque there would be no guarantee that the Government would not be landed in protection.