ABSTRACT
The life of the House of Commons is necessarily lived in terms of the party system. It made a relationship between member and constituency which compelled the House of Commons to realize that its life depended upon attentiveness to the public opinion it encountered. The Labour Party cannot use the House of Commons, in all likelihood, for Socialist purposes save by capturing the State-power. And when the Labour Party became an independent group in the House of Commons, it accepted the assumption upon which the system was founded. It is on that road that we have set our feet and it is, clearly, important to discuss the change in the principles of parties in the effect they may have upon the working of the House of Commons. The fundamental characteristics of the House, especially its basis in Party control through Cabinet control, are essential now, as they were in Bagehot's time, to the success of parliamentary government.
