23 JUNE 1990, Page 24

No Heseltine connection

Sir: I object to having been used as a faggot on the pyre which Mr Simon Heifer so lovingly built for Mr Michael Heseltine (Politics, 19 May) (which I have only now seen). I am not Mr Heseltine's chef de cabinet, nor ever was, and I have had nothing to do with any newspaper article under his name, on the poll tax or anything else. As you value accuracy even above elegance in your contributors, I should be grateful if you would use this letter to set things right.

Julian Haviland

39 Cator Road, London SE26,