BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 84, 19 January 1928, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

CONJECTURE AS TO DATE.

THIS YEAR 3>EEMED PROPITIOUS

(Per Preßs Association —Copyright.) /Received This Day., 10.25 a.m.) ' ' LONDON, January 18. Lobbyites have begun .to conjecture regarding the date of the next election. Some consider that Mr Baldwin may go to the country in November in order to thwart Labour’s surtax, from which it estimated to raise £80,000,000 m ■direct taxation ; or he may have cause to be near home if the House of Lords destroys the “Votes for FI supers Bill. Jl hint that Mr Churchill's Budget will be improved as a res-ult of the enormous death duties, coupled with savings in the Army and Navy Departments is regarded as another reason why 1928 is propitious to go to the electorate, especially as the Labour Party’s coffers lire believed to be somewhat impoverished. Unionist headquarters say that ■they are merely going on with the usual long-sighted preparations. They have no idea of an appeal to the country before the spring of 1929.