After World War 2, the islands achieved self-rule, with the Maltese Labour Party (MLP) of Dom Mintoff seeking either full integration with the UK or else "self-determination (independence), and the Nationalist Party (PN) of Dr. George Borg Olivier favouring "dominion status" which was the same type of independence that Canada, Austraia and New Zealand have. In December 1955, a Round Table Conference was held in London, on the future of Malta, attended by Mintoff, Borg Olivier and other Maltese politicians, along with the British Colonial Secretary, Alan Lennox-Boyd. The British government agreed to offer the islands their own representation in the British House of Commons, with the Home Office taking over responsibility for Maltese affairs from the Colonial Office. Under the proposals, the