HC Deb 23 May 1916 vol 82 cc1982-3
50. Colonel YATE

asked the Prime Minister whether, considering that the primary condition of a Coalition Government is the acceptance by all parties concerned of a full and complete share of responsibility, he will now so reconstitute the Cabinet as to give the Unionists, who number 287 in the House of Commons to the Radical party's 260, and hold only nine out of the twenty-three seats in the Cabinet, the proportionate representation and responsibility to which they are entitled?

The PRIME MINISTER

No, Sir, I do not propose to make any such change.