The Archive · 1926

SENSATION [N THE LIBERAL PARTY

Leadership Resigned by Lord Oxford: Result of Split with Mr, Lloyd George

London, Oct. 14.

Lord Oxford has resigned the! leadership of the Liberal Party. 9

Lord Oxford's resignation was announced! in the course of a letter Mr. Spender, President of the National Liberal Federation, which refers in an oblique manner to the disagreement between Mr. Lloyd George and himself when, he says, he was distressed and surprised to find his public declarations encountered a challenge from a quarter which it was impossible for him to disregard, coupled with a refusal to meet him in Counci Lord Oxford emp: unity, but} ganizations and separate funds, He alludes to his lifetime devoted to Liberal principles from which he would never swerve, Moreover, he does not contemplate retirement from public life, but his. ty lay down the leadership of the Liberal Party. isi Reuter.

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