LETTERS Telling the truth
Sir: In your leader of 25 January, you repeated a number of inaccurate and out- dated assertions concerning the Referen- dum Party first reported by the London Evening Standard on 22 January. The most misleading of these are that the Referen- dum Party fell out with Mori 'because the poling organisation's findings about its level of support . . were so discouraging' and that Mori terminated its work for the party after Sir James's officials suggested the answers might prove more. flattering if the questions were changed'. Here are the true facts. The Referendum Party commissioned Mori to conduct one National Quickie Survey' only, for its spe- cific use, over six months ago, long before its national advertising campaign proper had even started. Mori agreed the ques- tions to be put in the survey, which were principally concerned with the level of pub- lic understanding of European issues. After this the Referendum Party brought its rela- tionship with Mori to an end. For your information, a poll conducted by Harris last December showed that if the Conservative and Labour parties went into the general election without a commitment to a full referendum on Europe, 14 per cent of voters would 'definitely consider' voting for the Referendum Party and a further 19 per cent said that they would 'probably con- sider' voting for the party, amounting to a total of 33 per cent. Patrick Robertson
Robertson & Associates, 104 Cambridge Street, London SW1
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