15 OCTOBER 1927, Page 32

WITII WHAT RESULTS ?

With figures such as these, the public may well refuse to be satisfied with vague assurances from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that outlays for social services cannot be curtailed. The tax-payer has a right to expect not only a much fuller explanation of these huge increases, but a convincing demonstration that the outlays have 'furthered not simply political expediency but the economic welfare of the country as a whole. In the light of the economic, developments of the last few years that will, I fancy, be a wellnigh impossible task.