Liberals in Council The Liberal Summer School, which has been
meeting this week at Oxford, seems to maintain a vigorous existence in spite of the evil days on which the Liberal Party has fallen. Judged by the calibre of its lectures and debates it puts in harder thinking on political problems than either the Conservative or Labour Party— though where the Liberals concentrate in a week the Conservatives reflect at leisure (at Ashridge). The results accrue to the common benefit, for there has hardly been an important social or administrative reform put on the Statute Book since the War which was not first threshed out at the Liberal Summer School. That men and women are prepared to go on year after year working out solutions of perplexing problems with the knowledge that there is no prospect, at any rate in any near future, that they themselves will ever be called upon by the electors to put the solutions into operation is all to their credit.. And that in fact so much of their programme is carried out proves that there is a good deal of Liberalism in this country at work outside the Liberal Party.
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