§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)gave notice that on an early day he would call attention to the anomalous position of Lord Salisbury as Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and to the severance of the office of First Lord of the Treasury from the Leadership of the Government, and should move: —
That, in the opinion of this House, the union in one individual of the offices of Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs introduces a fundamental change in the work of the foreign policy of the United Kingdom, and is a rupture of an old-established and invariable practice of the greatest importance to the good conduct of the public affairs of this country.