16 MAY 1952, page 3

A Swing To Labour

Whatever the precise tally of gains and losses in the local elections held in the past fortnight—the party affiliation of some candidates who labelled themselves neither......

Purchase-tax Finality

Mr. Butler was fully entitled to point out in the debate on purchase-tax in the House of Commons on Monday that the Douglas scheme for a revised purchase-tax "came from the......

Money To Burn

The Bishop of Willesden talked some exceedingly sound sense about gambling at a meeting of the Churches' Committee on Gambling on Monday. He is not alone in finding it strange......

At Westminster

T HE Opposition was much less ebullient about its victories at the borough polls than at the results of the county council elections. That is conformable to the nature of......