STRAW FORECAST
TA LABOUR ASSESSMENT sßec' 1.40 p.m. LONDON, June 21. . , TKe leaders of the Socialist Party, . idoing a half-way private assessment of : Itheir chances at the election, arepre- '•■' Sparing to make a sensational a.boutface.says the "Daily- Express." .: *Their own straw forecast does not eifraithem victory, but a substantial 1u increase —nearly 100 seats above the '-• ptesent representation of 170- in the '■ last-House of Commons," it says. "A representative spokesman said: 'We v may/^even gain as many as 120 seats "I and- thus force -a stalemate in the ■<"'» House of Commons.' If this happens t.! they are now prepared to serve in a -^ coalition under. Mr. Churchill, but on r:: condition tnat the names of the Con- ••«• servative Ministers in the new ;". iCabinet are-submitted'forthe approval 'of the Socialist leaders."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 146, 22 June 1945, Page 6
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