Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.

Tribune set up as the campaign's newspaper by Cripps and George Strauss survived. However the solution devised by the three men known as the Cabinet Mission Plan was unsatisfactory to the Indian National Congress mainly its principal leaders and instead of having to hold together the emerging one nation Indian National Congress leaders travelled further down the road that eventually led to Partition. that there was every likelihood" that Cripps would unseat Churchill as prime minister.

Sir Richard Stafford Cripps (24 April 1889 – 21 April 1952) was a British Labour politician of the first half of the 20th century. During World War II he served in a number of positions in the wartime coalition including Ambassador to the Soviet Union and Minister of Aircraft Production. After the war he served in the Attlee Ministry firstly as President of the Board of Trade and between 1947 and 1950 as Chancellor of the Exchequer.