12 APRIL 1946, page 4

A Spectator 's Notebook

B Y one of the oddities of Parliamentary procedure the Speaker, who is in many respects the most important member of the House of Commons, never hears what is in many respects......

An Imaginative Budget

N his first normal Budget the Chancellor of the Exchequer has I prudently decided on sternly sound finance. The situation which he had to handle was far more hopeful than could......