From a London correspondent 1777 On ard. October, the Clerk of the London County Council, Sir Willian Hart, received from Reginald A, Stamp, a letter resigning his office as the chairman of the Council.
This came about as a result of a meeting requested by Sir Perey Rugg, the Leader of the Tory Opposition, with Sir Isaac Heywood, the Labour Leader of the LsC.Ce. The Tory Leader showed Heywood copies of two letters dated over two years ago which had recently come into his possession. The correspondence has been sent to the Director of Public prosecutions with a request that he should consider whether they called for investigation and, if so, that he would have an investigation made and take auch further action as he might then think propor, Since Mrs Stamp's name is mentioned in the letters, Mr. Stamp "decided to resign the Chairmanship of the Council in order to avoid embarrassment while any investigation took place."
These are the bare facts, What lies behind them? It is significant that the letters should have been "discovered" two years after they were written, and that the Tory press has built this issue up into some impending scandal, The suggostion is that the Tories are determined to have a "Stamp" affair to discredit the Labour L.C.C., and the Labour Party in General.