20 DECEMBER 1924, Page 2

In the House of Commons, on Thursday, December 11th, in

answer to questions about the Campbell case, Mr. Baldwin said that it would be useless to re-open the whole matter, but he then made a statement which caused general surprise. The late Government, he said, had issued an instruction that no political prosecutions should be undertaken by the Attorney-General without the sanction of the Cabinet. It will be remembered that Mr. MacDonald declared in the General Election campaign that the Cabinet had "issued no. instructions." Mr. Baldwin added that as the -Government regarded the instruction as unconstitutional and _subversive of the administration of justice and derogatory to the office of Attorney-General, they had given directions that the instruction be excised.

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