The Parliamentary Labour Party has re-elected Mr. Adamson as its
Chairman, with Mr. Clynes as Vice-Chairman, and has decided, as the larger of the two anti-Coalition British Parties, to form the official Opposition, in place of the Asquithian Liberal remnant. It is an interesting new development. Under such men as Mr. Clynee the Labour Party has an opportunity of making a fresh start. The old evil influences have been scotched by the electors. The total Labour poll, including all the non- Labour votes east for patriotic men like Mr. Barnes, was about 2,400,000. But the fifty I.L.P. candidates between them received less than 300,000 votes, and only three of them were successful. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald and Mr. Snowden, whose intellectual dishonesty is apparently incurable, have alternately claimed this as a great victory and abused the electors and the Government for their defeat, Mr. Clynes, on the other hand, has pointed out that the LabOur,Party bed (raked for an election, and must make the best of it.. =glair:beer," he said with great wisdom, mUst stead ,for la* and &clef,' because the time ratty come when' Iadrour " will make the bir iuid will expect other sections. to,)30.1im-abidIng.
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