Dissolution
A special conference of the National Labour Organisation on 14 June 1945 decided to dissolve the party and the five remaining adopted Parliamentary candidates were redesignated to run as 'National' candidates. The organisation issued a closing statement which praised the Labour Party for joining the Coalition in 1940, and condemned it for breaking up the Coalition immediately after victory in Europe. It called "all men and women of progressive outlook" to vote to re-elect the Churchill government. The "Election Diary" in The Observer in recording the dissolution, considered the surprising thing to be that it took place in a year as late as 1945.
All five of the candidates were defeated in the election, although Kenneth Lindsay was re-elected as an Independent after moving constituencies from Kilmarnock to Combined English Universities. The News-Letter continued, with an editorial line critical of the post-war Labour Government. In September 1946 it urged progressive members of the Conservative Party to discard their name and join together with the Liberal Party under another name; the editorial believed "the struggle for the future will be for individual rights against the omnipotent State, democracy against despotism". The last edition of the News-Letter was dated April-July 1947.
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