In a day of speechifying opened by the members of what a leader on page 8 calls the Peace “Party” the Telegraph doesn’t mince its words when describing them – “a tiny and completely powerless clique of political eccentrics, who are disowned with contempt by the parties to whose support they owed their election to Parliament.” Their case in favour of opening peace negotiations didn’t find much favour with Herbert Asquith either – provoking “one of the historic utterances of the war” by him says a report on page 9.