Lib-Lab Pact °n Wednesday last week the entire Liberal army
of ten MPs. marched away from the sound ,, gunfire to vote in favour of Mr. Cousin's Tastery of technology. The next day when it was , question of voting against the Government instead of for it, half the army were no longer on .11E ,e field. In the vote on the third reading of the 1iance Bill, throughout which the Liberals have usually supported the Tories, only five Liberals voted. The other five were paired. Labour mem- bers who could not in any case have attended Were thereby accommodated and two ill Tories had left unpaired. If the Liberal attendance "ad been as good on the Finance Bill as it had been the day before, Labour's majority would have been not six but one—and that one is, of
course, accounted for by the vacancy in Tory' Hove.
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