BRITISH POLITICS.
THE LABOUR PARTY. (By Electhic Telegraph—Copyright.) IPeb Press Association.) LONDON, March 7. Mr Ramsay McDonald. M.P., speaking at Caxton Hall, appealed to Mr Asquith not to waste time in sending his veto resolutions to the House of Lords, who would decline to discuss them. Mr Asquith would then not be able to ask the King for guarantees as to limiting the Lords' veto, because the House of Lords would reply that they were prepared to discuss the Bill when they knew the detailed proposals. If Mr Asquith humiliated and checkmated them, and sent the Bill on its weary way to the Lords the Liberals would get just such a thrashing when they appeal to the country as the Tories got in 1906. Let Mr Asquith introduce the Bill straight into the House of Lords, said Mr McDonald, and then go to the King for guarantees. There would then not even be a need for another election. The Budget should pass before an appeal was made to the country.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9159, 8 March 1910, Page 7
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