11 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 27

The final returns in the Municipal Inflations only emphasized the

disaster to Labour which we recorded last week. In London Labour suffered even more than throughout the rest of the country. Only four London Boroughs now have a Labour majority—Battersea, Bermondsey, Poplar and Woolwich. Before the elections there were fourteen Boroughs with Labour majorities. In Chelsea, Fulham, Holborn, Hackney, Lambeth, Paddington, Stoke Newington, Southwark, Lewisham, Wandsworth and Westminster Labour was swept away altogether, leaving not a trace.• In London before the elections there were 57'3 Labour representatives. Now there are only 233. On the other hand, the number of Municipal Reformers has risen from 596 to 806.