PARTY SYSTEM IN BRITAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 73, 27 March 1922, Page 5

PARTY SYSTEM IN BRITAIN.

A CHAOTIC ALTERNATIVE. COALITION STILL NEEDED. LONDON, March 2u. Mr. Winston Churchill (Secretary of State for the Colonies), speaking at Northampton, said that it bad been siig- j gested that those who advocated tbe I creation of a National party from the coalition had a deep design against the j unity of Uie Conservative partq. lie emphasised that it would no a great I disaster if the Conservative party were! broken up, us the Liberal party unhappily had broken up. Tliat would be the prelude to the creation nf a nuroWr nf jealous,, discordant groups, such as were to be seen in foreign Parliaments, united only by intrigues to gain power. *He saw no reason why Liberals and Conservatives could not work together during the anxious period ahead, as tney bad done during the last seven years. Old questions that divided the two historic groups were no longer the dominant dividing issues of politics. Even Ireland was not a party to the issue. Liberals owed a debt of gratitude to Conservatives for the great aid they had given in the settlement, of the Irish question. Conservative faith and Liberal principles were both exposed to a i„-«v attack by Socialist, parties, behind which crouched the shadows of Communist folly and Bolshevik violence. The newspapers, commenting on Mr. Winston Churchill's speech, suggest that he is preparing 1o rejoin the Conservatives if the Coalition breaks up.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) CHESTSEY 3Y-_L_CTION. LONDON. March 20. The Chertsey I Surrey I by-election to fill the vaeanrv caused by the death of Mr. Donald Mac-Master (Coalition Unionist) resulted:- — ! Sir P-Richardson (Coal. In. 1.. 11.81. j Gen. Sir 11. Gough I lad. Lib.) (1.400 \ —i A. and N.Z. Cable.) j At the jrencral ■•■rtinn in December. 191S, Mr. MacMastcr was rrturned for Chertsey with 13.331 votes, against 3.232 votes polled by his Labour opponent, T. T. Linscy.