LABOUR AND THE REFERENDUM [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,--I have been an admirer of the Spectator for some time, although I am a keen Socialist. It is therefore with distress that I find you attributing to the Labour Party a dislike for the Referendum. I should be pleased if you could produce some utterances of Labour leaders to support your contention.
Personally, I have never found the least opposition to the Referendum, and if there were such opposition I would work wholeheartedly in my party to remove it. Incidentally the Referendum cuts both ways. One wonders what would be the fate of the Eight Hours Act, the Trade Unions Bill and even of the Reform of the House of Lords project, if these came before the electorate.—I am, Sir, &c.,
JOHN C. L. SIMPSON.
The Grey House, Grange, West Kirby, nr. Birkenhead.
[We are delighted to receive this information and hope that our correspondent is right.—En. Spectator.]
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