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“REI’RKSKNT.VriVB Government.” “At the next Labour Party Conference, which will he held in London in October, the representatives of the rank and file will for the first time ho brought face to face with a Government of their own creation. The situation, in view of all the circumstances, should la.* a piquant one. I*ai the most serious problem is raised in a series of resolutions demanding that the Executive Committee of the Party shall control the policy of the party in l’arliamcnt. and of the Government. These resolutions stiiki* at the very root of the British Parliamentary system. It has always .been understood that our Governments, though depending for support, oil a party majority, are something more than the spearhead of a single liarty. They arc responsible to tin* House of Commons ns a whole and to the nation ns a whom. Even tin* individual member of Parliament, once he is elected, is expected to regard liinisell as the representative of Lis rostit uein y, and not merely of a section of it. and to represent it—as Burke once pointed out to his constituents with sonic independence of judgment. “Westminster Gazette.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1924, Page 2
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195THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1924, Page 2
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