L o rd Darling made a very clever move by proposing that
the rule by which the Railway Trade Unions are protected against malingering should be substituted for the tests which the Government have provided in the Unemployment Insurance Bill for those who claim to be " genuinely seeking work." Surely, Lord Darling gently insinuated, the Government would not wish to be slacker in dealing, with public money than the Trade Unions are in dealing with, theirs. It is difficult to see what convincing answer the Government can make. Yet no one wants a conflict between the two Houses. If the Government stayed in office long enough they could, of course, pass the. Bill over the heads of the Lords, but, on the whole, it seems likely that the Liberals will help them to pass it more or less in its present form. The Lords' amendment will come before the Commons on Thursday after we have gone to press.
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