COMMON MARKET

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30274, 29 October 1963, Page 15

COMMON MARKET

Attitude Of Home (N Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright > LONDON, Oct. 28. Britain would join the Common Market if she could get the right terms the Prime Minister (Sir Alec DouglasHome) said at the week-end, the "‘Sunday Times” reported today. In an election speech at Fortingail, Scotland, he replied briefly to Mr Harold Wilson’s challenge to him to make a statement on the Government’s attitude to Common Market entry. Sir Alec Douglas-Home said: “We said we would only go into the Common Market if we could get the right political and economic terms and we stayed out. “I don't know if circumstances wil] arise in which we can open the question again, but if so we shall still have to get the right terms for our entry." Seventh Opponent A 47-year-old mathematics teacher from London is expected to oppose Sir Alec Douglas-Home as the seventh candidate in the Kinross byelection. The teacher Mr Richard Wort, of Wimbledon, said today he would fight the byelection because he opposed the idea of Sir Alec DouglasHome renouncing his ancient titles to enter the House of Commons. Mr Wort said he would stand as the candidate for “the Light and Dark Blue Conservative Party” backed by "between 10 and 20” Cambridge (light blue) and Oxford (dark blue) graduates. His party felt Sir Alec Douglas-Home should not have renounced his title as the Earl of Home and should have stayed in the House of Lords instead of downgrading it by trying to enter the House of Commons.