30 NOVEMBER 1934, Page 3

Then there has been the Revolt of the Young Con-

servatives. For three years they have sat with almost complete docility on the back benches. One of the arguments in justification of the failure of the Prime Minister to give them promotion was the fact that so few of them had done any work to deserve it. This is not merely the youngest House of Commons but the laziest House of Commons. The weakness of the Opposition accounts for it to sonic extent. There has been so little to answer and the result has been a lamentable lack of life and colour in debate.