SIR Sometimes it is hard explaining Conservative policy. Between putting pen to paper and a letter's publication, events can overtake the best of intentions, like Philip Bird telling us that Europe was not a fault line.

A subsequent e-mail leak had an aide telling his leader that "Europe is a cause for concern on the backbenches".

Concerns quickly made worse when David Cameron is forced to delay his leadership-winning pledge to make his MEPs leave the European People's Party until 2009.

Instead he sets up a joint commission' with a Czech party no-one has ever heard of to consider the formation of a new group of anti-Federalists which, unsurprisingly, satisfies no-one.

Philip Davies MP then told readers (wrongly) that a repeal of the Human Rights Act would prevent further examples of deportations of illegal immigrants being ruled unlawful if they faced torture in their home countries.

In fact, judges are bound by a decision of the European Court which derives from the European Convention on Human Rights.

Even if Mr Davies got his law right he would not get his way because Mr Cameron promptly announced that a Conservative government would not withdraw from the Convention.

Brian Holmans, Langley Road, Bingley