 The ascent of the Norwegian Labour Party turned out to be decisive in passing the 1917 reforms, and one Labour politician – the illustrious Halvdan Koht – was in the early 1920s asked to develop the party's political platform for the Norwegian language.Koht was for some years both the chairman of "Noregs mållag" and "Østlandsk reisning" and immersed on the issue of language.He published his findings in 1921, and framed them in a decidedly political context.