21 NOVEMBER 1923
Herbert Asquith, the former Prime Minister, launched his election campaign in Paisley.
The German ex-Crown Prince formally renounced his rights to the throne.
Lord Birkenhead, in a speech at the Constitutional Club in London presented the case for fiscal reform. Lord Balfour and Austen Chamberlain also spoke at the meeting.
20 NOVEMBER 1923
Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, talking at the Queen’s Hall in London, replied to speeches of Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George and declared his faith in his tariff proposals, not as an immediate cure, but as the only effective way of securing an early improvement in trade and employment.
Sir Robert Horne, in a speech in Glasgow, supported Imperial Preference.
The united Liberal party have issued a manifesto, signed by Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George, criticising the Unionist policy and outlining their own principles.
The Prince of Wales is to visit South Africa next year.
19 NOVEMBER 1923
David Lloyd George, speaking in Northampton, said that Protectionists and Socialists were both smashers and appealed to the electorate to avoid both.
Winston Churchill, speaking in Manchester, said Liberalism offered a practical alternative to the twin follies and quackeries of Protection and a capital levy.
Lord Dalkeith was adopted as the Unionist candidate for Roxburgh and Selkirk.
18 NOVEMBER 1923
David Lloyd George, the former Prime Minister, opened his campaign in the election when he spoke at Northampton in support of the candidature of Mr. McCurdy. He mentioned that the victory of the last Government was the victory of the extreme men of their own party.
Stanley Baldwin, in his manifesto for the General Election, said that his fiscal proposals included plans to raise revenue by methods less unfair to our home production, to give assistance to industries which are suffering from unfair foreign competition and to give trade preference to Empire countries.
17 NOVEMBER 1923
The situation in Europe, the peace with Turkey, the Imperial Conference, the position of agriculture and unemployment were discussed at the prorogation of Parliament.
Lord Derby, in a speech in Northwich, declared that he was in full agreement with the Prime Minister’s policy.
Winston Churchill, speaking in Manchester, said that protectionism might benefit some trades, but the main body of the community would pay for it.
The King conferred a Peerage upon Robert Cecil.
16 NOVEMBER 1923
The House of Commons debated Ramsay MacDonald’s vote of censure on the Government.
No settlement was reached in the boilermakers’ dispute, the conference in Edinburgh being adjourned once again.
15 NOVEMBER 1923
Sir Robert Sanders announced the Government’s agricultural policy which included the subsidy of £1 an acre on all arable holdings of not less than one acre, a Customs duty on malting barley and a guaranteed minimum wage for farm workers.
Lord Strachie, the Government’s Agricultural spokesperson, said that the outbreak of Foot and Mouth had cost the Exchequer more than £200,000.
Viscount Grey, speaking in Bath, said that the Liberal Party had achieved unity on a great question and that they would go through the election as they did in 1905.
14 NOVEMBER 1923
The Prime Minister announced that he had advised the Crown to dissolve Parliament on Friday with a view to call an immediate General Election. Marquis Curzon made a similar statement in the House of Lords.
It was official announced that arrangements were completed for all Liberals to fight the election as a united party both at headquarters and in the constituencies.
The Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation and the Boilermakers’ Society agreed to meet in Edinburgh to consider proposals for the settlement of the boilermakers’ lockout which was in the 29th week.
13 NOVEMBER 1923
The media reported that it was expected that Parliament would be dissolved.
The Earl of Balfour described as grotesque the suggestion that by fortifying Singapore the British were taking a mean advantage of a technical point in the Washington Treaty.
The retirement of Mr Justice Darling was announced.
12 November 1923
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, said that America’s policy of “selfish isolation” after the war was “deeply ignoble, cowardly and dishonourable”.
The German ex-Crown prince left his place of exile in Holland and crossed into Germany.
Sir Thomas Paxton was confirmed to be unable to be the Unionist candidate for Central Glasgow for health reasons. Winston Churchill declined the Liberal invitation to stand in the constituency.