SIR – Is Labour belatedly proposing to put “fairness” into its policies? Fairness has long been at the heart of Lib Dem policies.

Lib Dems want fairness in personal taxation, believing it to be wrong that a cleaner pays a higher proportion of income in taxation than his/her millionaire employer.

We would exempt low-earners (less than £10,000 pa) from income tax and tax the highest-paid more.

We would tax mansions worth more than £2 million (and deduct the money from the estates of any who cannot afford to pay currently).

We would introduce fair votes – just as the Tories did into Northern Irish local elections under John Major – to give everyone a fair hearing and fair say in how they are governed (locally, at least, in this case).

The system is the fair ‘single transferable vote’, with several members in ‘pooled’ constituencies. It is also used in Scottish local elections.

The ‘alternate vote’ being proposed by the current Labour leadership could possibly benefit the Lib Dems more, but is not necessarily fair.

Let Labour put their policies where their collective mouth is!

Councillor John Hall (Lib Dem, Windhill and Wrose), Pennithorne Avenue, Shipley