BRITISH POLITICS.
REPRESENTATION OF LONDON. Per Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, Juno 5., In the House of Commons, Mr Lewis Harcourt's Bill to,constitute London. & single parliamentary borough and abolish plural voting was read a -second time by 140 to i 6. > ," h t Sir Henry Kimber, Mr Alfred Lytteltpn and other members < combated the Bill, because it was not accompanied bj- a scheme providing for a .redistribution ■ of seats, and because it sought to establish one man one vote exclusively for London, which represented one-eighth of the electorate of the whole country. • Mr Harcourt replied that the' Bill removed anomalies, and Londoners' grievances were remediable /'without their having to await the large.Toieasure of reform the Government hoped • to pass before the dissolution. " N
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXIX, Issue 7815, 7 June 1909, Page 2
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