Sir Robert- Horne moved the Unionist vote of censure against
the Government, and showed how essential it was that politics and justice should be kept apart. On the Government's own admission this had not been done. The danger of injury to the unbroken and invaluable traditions of this country was very grave indeed. The Attorney-General at once defended himself by laying before the House every relevant paper on the subject. He undoubtedly earned some personal sympathy, par- ticularly when he acknowledged that he had made a mistake in undertaking the prosecution without sufficient information. But as the debate progressed it became evident that the mingling of politics and justice had gone even further than had been at first supposed. The Attorney-General admitted, for instance, that he had been " consulted " by the Prime Minister. Indeed the whole Cabinet had had its say on the subject. The Prime Minister, according to the Attorney-General, "took the view that the prosecution was ill-advised."
