FIRST SUCCESS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22553, 10 April 1943, Page 5

FIRST SUCCESS

New Political Party (Rec. 7.30) LONDON, April 8. Warrant Officer J. Loverseed (Commonwealth) with 8023 votes won the Eddisbury (Cheshire) by-election by a majority of 486 over T. Peacock (National Liberal). This is the first seat won by the new party. Warrant Officer Loverseed is in his errly thirties. He is the first Commonwealth Party member to win a seat. He was a pilot in the Battle for Britain. He flew in Spain on the Republican side. His election slogan was that every vote for him was a vote for the Beveridge report. He advocates national ownership of land, coal, electricity. transport and the iron and steel industries. Formed last July, the Commonwealth Party has contested five byelections

“The Times,” in a leading article, says: “Warrant Officer Loverseed is a gallant, earnest and sincere young man with a simple direct programme. He put winning the war before all else, yet he claimed priority for a political and social progress. His policy, with a positive appeal, won the day. Warrant Officer Loverseed’s victory is not a vote of hostility to the Prime Minister, who is completely identified with the active prosecution of the war. but rather is it a call which cannot safely be neglected for prompt unequivocal measures to give effect to the great programme of social reform embodied in a series of reports to the Government and in Mr Churchill’s broadcast.”