BRITISH PARLIAMENT
BILL TO EXTEND LIFE LABOUR PARTY POLICY (10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 30. The three Labour members of the War Cabinet, Major C. R. Attlee, Mr. Ernest Bevin and Mr. Herbert Morrison, held a meeting on Sunday with the Labour Party national executive. The Daily Express says that the meeting was called mainly because it was felt there must be no differences between the Ministers and party officials on the attitude to the general election. A brief official communique issued after the meeting stated: "Consideration was given to questions with which the party will have to deal when the progress of the war makes a general election possible.” The Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill, is expected shortly to put an end to all prospects of an early general election. He said yesterday ihat he would move the second reading of a bill to extend the life of the present Parliament for another 12 months. This is the first occasion that Mr. Churchill himself has taken charge of such a bill. Previously it was left to the Home Secretary, Mr. Morrison.
The last general election in Britain was in November, 1935.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21549, 31 October 1944, Page 3
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