Unsurprisingly the Compulsion issue again dominated the news, as the Government had a majority of 298 on the motion to introduce the Military Service Bill after what the report on page 9 described as “a debate which again reached an astonishingly high level of eloquence and argument,” but found itself opposed by the Labour movement, whose congress opposed the idea by an overwhelming majority, and which forced the three Labour members of the Government to tender their resignations (both reports also page 9, the former running on to page 10).