NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 28 July 1923

28 JULY 1923

Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, said at a meeting at the Scottish Conservative club that they must fight against socialism saying that it could be countenanced by deliberate, vigorous and intelligent propaganda. He said that the greatest bulwark against socialism was the loyal and united Unionist party.

The Unionist candidate, Charles Henry Wilson, won the by-election in Leeds Central which had been caused by the death of the current Unionist MP Arthur Wellesley Willey. He secured 13,085 votes, with Labour’s Henry Slesser securing 11,359 votes and the Liberal candidate Gilbert Stone securing 3,026 votes.

The second reading of the Education (Scotland) Bill was agreed to in the House of Commons.