Mr. Churchill ended his speech by the declaration that the
Government would not hold office unless they had reason to believe that they could carry their Resolutions into law. "Since the House of Lords, upon evil and unpatriotic instigation, as I judge it, have used their veto to affront the prerogative of the Crown and invade the rights of the Commons, it has now become necessary that the Crown and the Commons acting together should restore the balance of the Constitution and restrict for ever the veto of the House of Lords." We are not alarmed. If Mr. Winston Churchill and his colleagues refer the Constitutional question to the people, and can obtain from them an order to destroy the functions of the Upper House, and so leave us with a single Chamber, the Lords, like every other institution in the country, will submit to the orders of their master. Till his orders have been obtained, Mr. Churchill's talk of what the Crown and the Commons are going to do leaves us cold. At present Mr. Churchill has no right to pose as the spokesman of either.
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