14 APRIL 1928, Page 3

The result of the Linlithgow by-election was declared on Thursday,

April 5th, as follows

Mr. E. Shinwell (Labour) .. .. 14,446 Miss M. Kidd (Unionist) .. • • .. 9,268 Mr. D. Young (Liberal) .. .. 5,690 - Majority .. .. 5,178

Labour thus gained a seat as a result of the intervention of the Liberal candidate. At the General Election the figures were :- Mr. J. Kidd (Unionist) ..

.. 14,765 Mr. E. Shinwell (Labour) .. .. 14,123

The attacks upon the Government made by Liberal speakers in the Linlithgow campaign were so bitter that one might have supposed that the speakers were more intent upon defaming Mr. Baldwin than upon defeating Socialism. Is that really their view ? Or do they simply hold that the right of the Liberal Party to exist necessarily takes precedence over other considerations ?