6 FEBRUARY 1926, Page 2

At a meeting of the Liberal Parliamentary Party on Monday

Mr. Lloyd George was elected chairman for the coming session by seventeen votes to seven. Of the forty-two members of the party thirty. attended the meeting. Six of those -present, including Sir John Simon and Mr. Walter Runciman, did not vote. Mr. C. F. Entwistle, who formerly represented South West Hull as a Liberal and was the Deputy Chairman of Com- mittees during the Labour Government, has informed Lord Oxford that he wishes to follow Sir Alfred Mond into the Unionist camp. " The conduct and aspirations of the present Government " have satisfied him that his true political home is there.

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