Twelve rules were written for the club, mostly by F. E. Smith, and they were, and are still, read aloud at each dinner. Churchill claimed to have contributed the last: 12. Nothing in the rules or intercourse of the Club shall interfere with the rancour or asperity of party politics, Rules of The Other Club at The Churchill Centre although the so-called Birkenhead school ascribes this to Smith. In any case debate was vigorous, and Churchill insisted on attending even at the height of the Blitz in 1940/41.
