20 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 19

THE LABOUR PARTY AND THE REFERENDUM

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] an otherwise good-tempered article on the Reform Of the House of Lords, your contributor states that the Labour Party is hotly opposed to the Referendum for the reason that it has been found, in countries where it exists, to act as a brake on rash legislation. I suggest that the opposition of the Labour Party to the Referendum is occasioned by the disadvantage at which they would be placed in presenting their ease to the electorate, on a single issue, in the face of an almost universally hostile Press.—I am, Sir, &c., 11 Mount Street, W.1. PATRICK CAMERON.