POLITICS IN BRITAIN.
DATE OF NEXT ELECTION. LOBBYITES CONJECTURING. rpres» Aioociatlon-By Telegraph—Copyright, 1 LONDON, January 18, The lobbyites have begun conjecturing the date of the next election. oome consider that Mr Baldwin may go to the country in November in order to thwart Labour’s surtax proposal, from which it is estimated to raise £8,000,000 in direc* taxation, or the election may be nearer at hand if the Lords destroy the ‘‘ Votes for Flappers ” Bill. ’The hint that Mr Churchill’s Budgeo has improved as the result of enormois death duties, coupled with savings in the Army and Navy Departments, is regarded as another reason why 1928 is propitijis to go to the electorate, especially as the Labour Party’s coffers at present are be lieved to be somewhat impoverisned Unionist headquarters sav that they are merely going on with the usual tong sighted preparations. They have no idea of appealing to the country before the spring of 1929.—A. and N.Z. Cable
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20311, 20 January 1928, Page 7
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