UNIVERSITY M.P.s.
St,—The Government, in its misguided efforts towards absolute equality, is levelling down, not up, by insisting on the abolition of university representation. The leavening influence of these intellectually distin- guished M.P.s on the " lump " of ordinary party members of all shades has been immensely valuable in the past by letting in the light of reason on many acrimonious debates. It is sad such a retrograde step should be taken now, when enlightened counsel is more than ever needed in our national affairs. Who knows whether this is the last minority to be extinguished or can give any guarantee that this action may not be used in the future as a precedent for still graver encroachments on freedom of thought ? The Labour Government, with its record of muddle and misconception unsurpassed in modern political history, would do better to look to its own shortcomings rather than persist in this ill-advised meddling with constitutional practice.—Yours faithfully,
35 Painswick Road, Hall Green, Birmingham 28. W. J. WRIGHT.
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