SIR – What astonishing irony! Lord Heseltine, the arch Europhile, is now in charge of red tape! It takes a thief to catch a thief, I suppose.

One wonders why the man at the Town Hall should be any better than the man in Whitehall. Spend the money on VAT and business rate cuts is my advice.

Godfrey Bloom, UKIP MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire