ABSTRACT
For a Political Parliament on the one hand, and a Social and Economic Parliament on the other; kindred proposals, less definite in form, have been made by Mr. Winston Churchill and, quite recently, by Mr. Christopher Hollis, the Conservative member for Devizes. The author then proposes to put forward some criticisms of my own which he submit for there consideration. The Labour Party's National Executive Committee rejected Mr. Churchill's offer by a decisive vote, immediately and overwhelmingly endorsed by the National Conference of the Party; though there was a suggestion that the Coalition should continue until October, when the life of the Parliament elected in 1935 would end without a new Act for its renewal. By the Parliament Act of 1911, of course, there ought to have been a general election not later than the Spring of 1940, but, with general assent, power had been taken by Parliament to prolong its own life year by year during the war.
