The Week in Parliament Our Parliamentary correspondent writes :—It is
clear that the by-elections with their evidence of Labour's returning strength have put new life into this Parliament. The House has been packed out at Question Time and throughout the Report stage of the Sedition -Bill there has been a large attendance. Among Govern- ment supporters there is a general uneasiness at the tone of the speeches at the National -Labour Luncheon. They are disturbed at. the lack of any suggestion of a positive fighting programme for the next election. There is some irritation at Mr. Baldwin's reiteration of the need of the older men to hold on, to. their positions- until youth is some to assume responsibility. They Point out that Some of the so-called younger men are not nearly so young as Mr. Baldwin imagines. Mr. Robert Hudson, for -instance, who has done conspicuously well as Under- -Secretary to the Minister of Labour, is 47 years of age. Mr. Duff Cooper, one of the best debaters in the House, is 44. 'Yet until a few months ago lie was in the same position in this Government that he had held six years before and even now he is still outside the Cabinet. -All this talk about the " lost generation " is becoming increasingly unreal.
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