At a private meeting to-day the Parliamentary Labour Party endorsed the Cabinet's decision to include an alternative vote in the Electoral Reform Bill.
The Premier, Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald, who was present at the meeting, is reported to have stressed there was no pact with the Liberals but that it was advisable to placate them as an election at the present time was undesirable, It may be recalled that Mr. Lloyd George, in.a.speech at the National Liberal Club on December 5, denied the existence of a Liberal-Eabour pact. He said the Liberal Party was determined to get electoral reform and if they could not obtain proportional representation, they ought to accept the alternative vote system and thus secure the defeat of Protection, unless a majority of the electors really wanted Protection—Reater.
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