A deputation of Nonconformist M.P.a, dissatisfied with the Premier's pledge
to deal with education only in the lifetime of the present Parliament, waited on the President of the Board of Education on Tuesday. They urged on him the need of bringing in a Bill next Session so as to secure its passing into law before the next General Election, and they received the only answer that Mr. Peaseāfourth of the transient and embarrassed phantoms who have held the post since 1906ācould give them : No, and butter. There is some- thing almost pathetic in the naivete of these Nonconformist politicians in expecting a settlement of this question on their lines from an Administration which depends for its existence on the support of Irish NationalistsāRoman Catholics almost to a manāand of Labour members, who are perfectly indifferent to the Nonconformist demands. The Government will not touch education in the present Parliament.
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