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Letter: Lady of leisure

Sarah Thursfield
Sunday 04 April 1999 23:02 BST
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Sir: According to your article, "Children learn lack of ambition as inequality triples in 30 years" (29 March), Mrs Lippett of Bristol "has never worked."

How would your Social Affairs Correspondent describe looking after a disabled husband and four children on pounds 137 a week? As a leisure activity?

SARAH THURSFIELD

Oswestry, Shropshire

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