Letter: Constitutional reform

Sir: I was sorry to read that Tony Blair intends to put constitutional reform on hold (report, 11 September). We are told he is to delay freedom of information and to postpone a decision on electoral reform. This reminds me of a contemporary judgement on Henry VIII's Reformation: "He is like one that would throw a man from the top of a high tower and bid him stay where he was half way down".

Earl RUSSELL

House of Lords