29 NOVEMBER 1935, Page 3

Another first-class debater of a more truculent type 'is Lord

Winterton. He obviously prepares his speeches carefully, but he is able to weave into them most effective answers to the arguthents of the opposition. Though Mr. Morrison is now Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Lord Winterton is " tipped " for a Cabinet job in the next reshuffle, office does not go nearly often: enough to the skilled Parliamentarian.. The leading Ministers could make a very important contribution to raising the standard of debate if they were more assiduous in their attendance on the Front Bench and proved more clearly by their appointments that force and lucidity in argument are an essential pasSport to official recognition.