The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary Correspondent writes : Interest
in the House of Commons is once more centred on the future of Mr. Lloyd George. His speech on the third reading of the Distressed Areas Bill proved to be in the nature of an all-party manifesto. It did not have a very encouraging reception from the left wing of the Conservative Party to whom he was making his chief appeal. The young Conservativei are awaiting with interest the details of his proposals, but from what they heard of its general outline they feel that it is an emascu- lated edition of the 1929 programme. His vague refer- ences to the Nationalization of the Bank of England has also tended to harden Conservative opposition. Liberals, on the other hand, were entertained to see the way in which the Conservative Minister of Labour was driven by Mr. Lloyd George's demand that the £300,000,000 worth of foodstuffs now imported should be produced here, to develop the classic Free Trade argument. Mr. Lloyd George had made a great point of the plight of shipping in Liverpool, and Mr. Stanley made the obvious rejoinder that " an attempt to produce in this country £300,000,000 worth of things which today are brought from overseas was not exactly a contribution to the solution of that unhappy city's problem."
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