Mr. Herbert Morrison did some delicate skating on thinnish ice
when he declared at the L.C.C. meeting on ' Tuesday that as Leader of the L.C.C. he repudiated entirely the former Minister of Transport [himself], and he reserved full right in the future to repudiate the present Leader of the Council if his responsibilities made him , accountable to a body not the Council. The question at issue was whether the L.C.C. should contribute to the cost of a Thames tunnel at Dartford.. Mr. Morrison, as Minister of Transport in 1980, thought it should. Mr. Morrison, as L.C.C. leader in 1935, thought it should not. It is arguable, of course, that various circumstances have changed in the interval and that in any-case the question is only one of expediency. But Mr. Morrison's words on the face of them suggest that it is perfectly reasonable for a man to change his convictions whenever he changes his office—a deplorable doctrine.
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