24 NOVEMBER 1944, Page 4

I am' reminded—for 'I did know but forgot—that to be

in the running for the Fathership of the House of Commons your sitting record from the date of first election must be Continuous. That removes Mr. George Lambert (who, though he was first elected in 1891, was out from 1924 to 1929) from the running, and I was wrong in saying that he, as well as Mr. Lloyd George, was in front of