into doing it. They are ordinarily willing to be content
with a fair amount of public time Mr.
Balfour has not met the Opposition on these lines." May I be forgiven for saying that this reads more like a lady's political novel than the Spectator, and may well tax the gravity of any Member of either side of Parliament P Nobody denies that it is the business of Opposition to render abortive the schemes of Government, and the methods are perfectly well known. Your readers have no right to complain of your change of attitude towards Mr. Balfour and his Government, but reasoning of this sort cannot but irritate and disappoint those who read your paper for sound and instructive [Mr. Lucas has entirely misconceived the constitutional functions of an Opposition. Their true business is critical,- i.e., to keep a sharp eye in the interests of the nation on the conduct of the Government. It may rightly be said that they collaborate with the Government in carrying on the work of the State. It is this fact that is latent in the paradoxical phrase " His Majesty's Opposition."—En. Spectator.]
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