Letter: Out of his misery

Sir: I find it astonishing that after six and a half years as Prime Minister Mr Major seems anxious to continue in the job.

When you think of all he has had to contend with - the undoing of the poll tax fiasco, the ERM debacle, the arms-to-Iraq scandal, ministers caught with their trousers down the BSE catastrophe, the E coli disaster, the revelations about organophosphates in the Gulf, the constant sniping of the Eurosceptics - it will surely be an act of kindness if we vote him out of office on 1 May and let him have some peace and quiet.

THOMAS DUNCAN

Stokesley,

North Yorkshire