ABSTRACT
All of them concern the place of the private member in the House of Commons, and all of them are not the less important for being, in no small part, concealed from the public view. The present organisation of the Labour Party in the House of Commons is a good example of a freedom in appearance which, in fact, conceals a far too rigid control. There are no standing orders in the Parliamentary party. Neither the Tory Party nor the Liberal Party has a discipline so rigid as that of the Labour Party; and it is difficult not to feel that, when the Labour Party is in office. The organisational weakness of the Labour Party as compared with either the Tories or the Liberals, is that, mostly for historical reasons, the different ruling elements in it have scarcely any contact except upon the formal and official level.
