Mr. A. MacCullum Scott, Liberal member for the Bridgeton' Division of Glasgow from 1910 to 1922, and Liberal Whip for Scotland in Mr. Lloyd George's Government in 1922, has decided to join the Labour party. The pact during the late lection, he writes to Mr. Asquith, has "reduced the Liberal Party to the position of a spare wheel in the Conservative car." He ndds—"No attempt has been made to apply Liberal principles to the solu= tion of the new and menacing problems, social, economic and industrial,' which" are springing up om The Liberal Party haw lest the initi lative in policy."
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