LABOUR AND THE REFERENDUM.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—On page 583 of your issue of October 28th, in the last paragraph of your " News of the Week," you have a reference to the Labour Party's attitude to the Referendum, and you express a wish that they will, in future, actively support the Referendum and will no longer oppose it. I should like to know whether your statement as to the Labour Party's attitude is correct. Perhaps someone who is cognizant of the facts will kindly state, through the pages of the Spectator, what is the attitude of the Labour Party. I have been assured recently that the Labour Party were in favour of the Referendum and had advocated it for many years. Can we get at the facts ?—I am, Sir, &c., Grange Fell, Leigh Woods, Bristol. R. B. HAY.
[Though we cannot give chapter and verse, we are confident that the Labour leaders are against the Referendum and that the Party has never advocated it. If this is not the true view we trust that some one competent to correct us will do so. It is hardly necessary to say that we will give instant publicity to a correction in which we should so greatly rej oice. —ED. Spectator.]
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