NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 9 December 1923

9 DECEMBER 1923

It was reported in the media that Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, was considering resignation after failing to get a sufficient majority at the General Election.

Labour said that there would be no partnership with the Liberals in Parliament.

Ramsay MacDonald, the Leader of the Labour Party, said “we are fifty stronger than in the last Parliament. We could have dropped the Capital Levy and Nationalisation, but we are not out to snatch seats and win a premature victory. When our time comes we shall be ready. Our present task is to educate opinion”.

London County Council Highways Committee cut fares in a bid to recover some of the custom that had been lost to the buses, which had increased from 780 to 1,000.