14 FEBRUARY 1931, Page 18

ELECTORAL REFORM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—May I

invite your attention to a point in constitutional law which seems to have been overlooked ? It is an unwritten law of the Constitution that any Act of Parliament changing the electorate or the manner of election constitutes an avowal that the House of Commons as then constituted does not represent the electorate, and as a consequence of this avowal an Act for electoral reform is necessarily followed by a General Election.

The Electoral Reform Bill now before Parliament is no exception to this rule, and if passed should carry the logical

consequences.—I am, Sir, &c., , GRAIIA3I BOWER. Studwell Lodge, Droxford, Hants.