6 JANUARY 1939, Page 7

Transport House remains apparently hostile to any idea of a

National Opposition or Popular Front. But, by all accounts, the movement towards electoral co-operation is growing in the constituencies, particularly in the south and west. The issues that divide Liberals and Labour have receded, temporarily at any rate, into the background. It remains as certain as anything can be in politics that Labour cannot win the next election unaided, while the Bridgwater result showed what can be achieved where all Mr. Chamber- lain's opponents are gathered into one fold. Nevertheless it is doubtful whether even a Liberal-Labour alliance would be strong enough to defeat the National parties. It is still difficult to visualise any alternative Government without a Conservative breakaway.