BRITISH POLITICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18286, 23 December 1919, Page 7

BRITISH POLITICS.

——— MINISTRY SAID TO BE . FOUNDERING. BITTER DIFFERENCES WITHIN COALITION. By Telegraph—Press Awociation—CopyrlJM United Service. LONDON, December 18. The signs of the foundering of Mr Lloyd George’s Ministry after a stormy session are causing many anticipations, but the House of Commons, including nearly 100 Government placemen and numbers who do nob expect re-eleo-tion, is not easily dissolved. Nevertheless, bitter differences are arising within the Coalition. Liberals refuse to have the slightest truck with the tariff, while the Unionists are making the Homo Rule scheme most difficult, and extremists are crying for the sternest military repression in answer to the outrages in Ireland. Lobbyists repeat the charge that Mr Lloyd George and Mr Winston Churchill are forming a Centre Party as a reply to the Unionist Party resolutions denouncing his Manchester spe|ch nnd insisting on the independence and solidarity of Unionists as a separate Party. The failure of the anti-profiteering legislation has cost the Government a lot of support from the country. / THE ALIENS BILL. LONDON, December 19. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, The House of Commons agreed to the House of Lords’ amendment to the Aliens Bill, whereby, instead 1 of the wholesale deportation of former enemy aliens, the Bill now provides for deT»rtation except where the Advisory Committee grants a license permitting an alien to remain in Britain.