Speaking at Bishop Auckland last Saturday, Mr. Henderson, the new
President of the Board of Education, said that his promotion to the Cabinet had not been approved of by the whole Labour Party, but his opinion was that when the Labour Party agreed to help recruiting at the beginning of the war they committed themselves irrevocably to the principle that all parties should stand together in the war. If that was right, then it was right now that he should help the Govern- ment in any way in which his services were considered to be of use. A National Government would obviously not be com- plete unless Labour were represented in it. That was Mr. Asquith's opinion. He accepted office without prejudice to the future. His was a war appointment This was sufficient reason for acting against the constitution of the Labour Party.
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