22 NOVEMBER 1940, Page 16

BACK TO PARTY POLITICS?

Sul,—Like Mr. Stonebridge, I regret the eclipse of the Liberal Party —but eclipsed it seems to be. Hence, to say that the Liberal is the only party fit to tackle unemployment is a statement which may or may not be true (I think it is not true), but gets us no farther because it is not possible to imagine that it will get the chance to try. Even if a more just electoral system gave the Liberals a proportionate representation in Parliament, it would still not bring that party to power. May I add that, like Mr. Stonebridge and Mrs. Evans, I should like to see a fairer electoral system (P.R. or some other) provided that it gave us a system which works better than the present?

[This correspondence is now closed.—En., The Spectator.]