28 AUGUST 1959, Page 7

ME LABOUR ORIGINAL is still awaited, though the Daily Herald

has jumped the embargo, doubt- less with Party blessing. It is amusing to see the fervour with which the gambling and drink laws are denounced—particularly set alongside recent Conservative hints that something might be done tO Implement the recommendation of the Royal Commission on Gambling, and even about licens- nig hours. Heaven knows, the betting and drink- ing laws of this country are ludicrous, but to see the parties falling over one another in their eagerness to demolish what only a few years ago it used to be their proud boast (and supposed electoral asset) to keep inviolable is a sight that will not surprise—or even displease—the cynical. When the devil was sick, the devil a devil would be.

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