sentences:  Lindsay was not offered any government posts when Churchill returned to office in 1951.He pressed the new government to set up an all-party conference on House of Lords reform, and to abolish identity cards as soon as possible.Lindsay also supported a committee such as that run by Eric Geddes in 1920 to cut public expenditure, criticising "the Government's hitherto total failure to fulfil their election promises" to make a substantial economy.