13 FEBRUARY 1971, Page 24

A gallery view

Sir: Sally Vincent's forthright opinions about workers and the working conditions in the Press Gallery have certainly provided those of us who report the goings- on in the House of Commons with a fresh experience. Now we who give daily have to learn to weekly take.

There is only one flaw in this table-turning—our victims have to suffer accurate rubbish. Facts in the Press Gallery are sacred. The emblem on our tie happens to be crossed quill pens poised above a portcullis rampant. But then per- haps it was during that post-coital movement. she plaintively described that Miss Vincent saw those ties.

William Russell Press Gallery, House of Commons, London swl