BRITISH POLITICS
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE BILL / GUILLOTINE MOTION CARRIED TO CURTAIL. DEBATE (By Electric Telegraph-Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable ABsociatioti) LONDON, Ist Dec. J\Jr Baldwin askecl fur the passage of Hie guillotine Tnotion on the Unemployment Insurance Bill on the ground of the congestion of business, but he made no complaint of obstruction. A Jong debate followed in which Labourites mowed several amendments With a view l to increasing, the time available for the debate. The guillotine was eventually carried by 236 votes to 100. FRANCHISE EXTENSION LONDON, 2nd Dec. ■Sir William Joynsou-Hicks, Home Secretary, informed a questioner that if women, like men, were enfranchised at the age of 21 it was estimated that the total electorate of Britain would be 12,250,000 men and 14,500,000 women.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 3 December 1927, Page 7
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