SIR – If Gerry Sutcliffe has got anything, it’s a neck (‘MP calls for debate’, T&A, June 1).

Barely a month in opposition and he has the nerve to question savings to deal with Labour’s grotesque debt. Well, I have something to remind him. As a member of the most irresponsible, spendthrift and controlling government ever, he is in no position to talk about finances.

He is jointly responsible for the vast and senseless borrowing of any government, which he has been happy to pass on to our children and grandchildren.

How dare he now take the financial moral high ground? His party should never ever again be permitted to lay their paws on our money.

His government broke a once-envious private pensions system, a strong and working economy and recreated a benefits culture among many.

He should be apologising for being a part of another socialist party which, like all socialist regimes, was fine until it ran out of other people’s money, so borrowed to make them pay even more!

Councillor Roger Taylor (Northowram & Shelf) Glen Terrace, Halifax