Letter: Growth will not pay for Labour's plan

Sir: Old Labour is "gone, all gone", you say (leading article, 4 April). Really? Many Old Labour people are still there - keeping quiet, perhaps, while Tony Blair gets the party elected, but they are there.

The Labour manifesto seems to be very much a personal creation of Mr Blair himself. Party leaders can be overthrown: when Tony Blair has been removed, what will become of his manifesto?

We know that we can't trust the Tories, but we don't know that we can trust Labour.

JOHN STANNING

Winchester