Letter: The princess and the plea for the homeless

From Fr Jeremy Craddock

Sir: On your front page today (8 December) you report that the Princess of Wales "condemned the sight of young people who 'resort to begging or worse, prostitution, to get money in order to eat'," and that "Conservative MPs immediately condemned the princess for breaching the tradition that members of the Royal Family do not get involved in politics".

As the Tory MPs would presumably not have objected to the princess condemning the policies of other parties, we have to assume that they thought she was condemning theirs. That is, they believe that it is Tory policy that the poor should resort to begging or prostitution in order to get enough to eat. We should be grateful to the MPs in question. At least we now know where we stand.

Yours faithfully,

Jeremy Craddock

Hartford,

Huntingdon

8 December