Letter: Tories and race

Sir: William Hague tells us that he went to the Notting Hill Carnival to demonstrate the Conservative Party's support for a multicultural Britain. It might have looked better if he'd just gone because he wanted to be there.

Has Mr Hague been to the carnival before? I doubt it. Twenty years ago, while most of us were first enjoying things like the carnival, the young Hague was making pompous pronouncements at the Tory party conference. Little has changed.

KEITH JOHNSON

Isleworth, Middlesex