country so bereft of friends needs any more enemies.
As in all elections, however, it is the government seeking a renewal of its mandate which must answer the most important questions, questions about its record as well as its Promises. Of the present Conservative Government it must be said that the essential question ministers have chosen to put before the people — the question of who, in the context of the miners' dispute, actually has a mandate from the people to govern Britain — does not go anything like far enough. We must ask, for example, what Mr Heath and his colleagues propose to do about that dispute if they are returned to power. Do they intend to settle with the miners, or do they intend to Slug it out in a long confrontation? Either Policy might be enough to gain them a renewed majority, depending on how the People feel at the end of the month, but we have a right to know which policy Mr Heath intends to adopt.
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