The Premier, Mr. Baldwin, will announce the election programme of the present Ministry at a gathering of Conservative members of Panis ment, election candidates a political leaders which will be held in London shortly after Mr. Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has made his Budget statement in the House of Commons on April 15.
The Budget will contain proposals which will subsequently form an important part of the Government's programme for the elections.
In Conservative circles, on which reliance can be placed, it is forecast that the Party programme will include measures for assisting the recovery of trade, the extension of the safeguarding. of industries policy, Empire settlement and development, Proposals for the benefit of agriculture, and a scheme providing. for the clearance of slums areas the cities.
Considerable changes are expected to take' place in the Government after the General Election if the Conservative Party is returned to Power. One of the most interesting of such rumours is that Mr. Winston Churchill, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will, anyhow, leave that post.—Reuter.
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