MR LLOYD GEORGE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 21 May 1926, Page 5

MR LLOYD GEORGE

RESIGNATION EXPECTED.

AS LIBERAL LEADER

lIIS LEANINGS TO LABOUR

BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, Received 10.40 a.in. to-day. LONDON, May 20.

The Daily Mail’s political correspondent stated that it was expected Mr Lloyd George would shortly resign the Liberal leadership in. the House of Commons, owing to the chaotic situation resulting from his attempt to force the party to accept his land proposals, and made worse by the variance of Lord Oxford and other leaders regarding the strike. “Mr Lloyd George lias long been trying to join the Labourites,” the correspondent added, “but personal enmitities are preventing him from obtaining the leading position to which he considers himself entitled.

“Mr Lloyd George, when he received a summons to attend the Liberal 'shadow cabinet,’ to discuss the party’s strike policy, replied that as Lord Asquith and Viscount Grey had already stated the party’s policy in the British Gazette without consulting him, it would not serve any useful purpose to attend. Viscount Grey subsequently wrote refusing to attend further meetings at. which Mr Lloyd George was present. The meeting was eventually held without Mr LloycT George, which is significant. ’ ’ The Daily Sketch also forecasts his imminent resignation.—Sydney Sun Cable.