7 MARCH 1931, Page 3

Meanwhile there is a curious situation in the tradition- ally

Unionist constituency of St. George's, Westminster. Sir Ernest Petter has come forward as an independent candidate whose main policy seems to be " Out with Baldwin." The election may turn on the Unionist leader- ship. The Unionists have not yet chosen their official candidate. Sir William Ray and Sir James Erskine are talked of, but Colonel Moore-Brabazon withdrew when he found that opposition to Sir Ernest Petter would require him, to come out as a champion of Mr. Baldwin— a role for which he professed himself to be unfitted. * *• * *