BRITISH ELECTION.

Feilding Star, Volume 1, Issue 49, 10 December 1923, Page 4

BRITISH ELECTION.

The final returns m fclie British election show that the Government supporters total 209 against 347 at Inst election, the combined supporters of other parties numbering 34-3 instead oi' 2b'H, a turnover of lo'.'i scats. The situation is a most, complicated one. i.h'' Baldwin pnrt\\ being in a minority in tlm Mouse of 84 with 13 seats to come, whereas their majority before the election was brt over all parties. It seems a certainty that Mr Baldwin will resign, and that, as n matter of form, Mr Ramsay MaeDonald, leader of the Labor Party. will he sent for hy the King. Of course, he has not, the slightest chance of keeping in power, but what the. shuffling of the cards will bring forth it is very difficult to forecast at the present time. The probabilities seem to point, to another Unionist combination, conditional upon a freeInule policy being maintained.