21 NOVEMBER 1947, page 3

Local Authority Finances

Mr. Bevan's lucid summary of the Local Government Bill at its second reading on Tuesday hardly gave a true impression of the Bill's immense complexity. He made four chief......

Burying The Budget

The impression that the sudden resignation of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, following his fatal indiscretion in revealing part of the contents of the Budget to a lobby......

Coal Production And The Target

The 4,249,000 tons of coal produced in the week ending Novem- ber t5th reached the highest weekly total since December, 1942. There may be some justification, therefore, for......

At Westminster

T HE House met on Monday in the not infrequent condition of a state of suspended expectation, heightened by the—in the Parliamentary sense only—lost week-end. This week, the......