The only important exceptions to this were the mining areas
and London. Owing to industrial. strife in the minefields every mining seat was lost to the Government. This was the main cause of the defeat of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald in Bassetlaw, where there had been a local strike in progress for the previous three months. In London the Labour Party had the great advantage of real leadership. Mr. Herbert Morrison, through his administration in the County Hall,: is winning a big reputation. Alone of the Labour leaders he makes an 'appeal outside the ranks of the party stalwarts. It is the lack of men of his, calibre in the party that, in my judgement, is the root cause of its relative failure at this election. The narrow class appeal which still impreg- »ates its propaganda will never win a majority of the nation.
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