SIR – After watching only the early stages of the Labour Party Conference in Manchester, confusion seems to reign.
Bradfordian Labour MP for Ashfield Notts Ms D Pierro believes too many people went to ‘fee paying’ schools, get top jobs in politics and most other walks of life. But is she aware that many leading figures in Labour enjoyed this privileged background themselves, or buy it for their own offspring?
To name but a few, Deputy Leader Harriet Harman, Dame Tessa Jowell, the Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls went ‘private’ and even the Shadow Education Secretary the Honourable Tristram Hunt MP for Stoke Central is the public school educated son of a peer of the realm.
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls, after offering excoriating criticism of – every – ‘austerity’ measure introduced by George Osborne over the last four years, now wants to emulate those very policies of cautious spending and borrowing and debt reduction.
Never mind the X Factor, or Britain’s Got Talent – the Labour Conference will entertain us more.
D S Boyes, Upper Rodley Lane, Leeds
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