24 MAY 1997, Page 25

Wishful thinking

Sir: I fear that in printing my letter in response to William Hague (17 May), The Spectator has been guilty of a Freudian slip. I wrote, of course, 'Labour, now the gov- ernment' but you rendered this as, 'Labour, not the government'.

It must be hard to accept after 18 years, but the Conservatives are no longer the party in power.

Angela Lambert

L'Escarcelle, Au lieu dit Gaudemagne, Grolejac Domme, France