News of the Week
A STRONG revolt in the Unionist Party has con- vinced the Government that they were going about the business of reforming the House of Lords in the wrong way. The proposals of last week are thereforeto be recon- sidered in consultation with the whole party, and it is possible that they will be abandoned. When we write the belief is that the Government will confine themselves next year to making certain amendments in the Parliament Act in regard to the definition of Money Bills. The proposal which the Lord Chancellor, on behalf of the Government, made last week in regard to Money Bills differed from Mr. Lloyd George's proposal in 1922 in that it did not make the Speaker of the House of Commons an additional member of the suggested Joint Standing Committee and did not give him a casting vote.
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