10 JANUARY 1958, Page 7

ALL THE SAME I would have thought more of his

chances if I had not read this in the News Chronicle on Monday:

Young electors will play a major part [in the Rochdale by-election]. Manchester Young Liberals will send 250 trained orators, average age 25. Their campaign flag, fifteen feet by nine feet, is striped in green and red, with a white ballot cross.