4 NOVEMBER 1922, Page 2

The result of the Borough Elections has been a veritable

landslide for Labour, not only in London but throughout the country. As we write the full figures are not available, but unless the first declared elections prove not to be fair samples of the whole, it will be the heaviest defeat that Labour has ever experienced. Up till Thursday afternoon the figures available showed that the Labour Party had lost 159 seats in the 14 (out of 28) Boroughs in which the results had been announced. In Fulham, for example, where Labour previously held 24 seats, they lost every one of them on Wednesday. In Camberwell, Labour only retained 9 seats out of 32.