Letter: A suitable vacancy for John Major

Sir: The Conservative Party has a leadership problem. The Labour Party has a vacancy for a leader. There is a simple answer. Let Labour choose John Major.

The Tories will be relieved. The Labour Party will achieve the greyness it has been seeking since 1969. The rest of us will be left in peace to establish a socialist party which, who knows, might get elected in my lifetime on policy rather than plausibility.

Yours sincerely,

W. G. FORREST

New College, Oxford