Letters to the Editor
In Search of a Government Edward Rushworth,
Graham Facks-Martin
Keeping up with the Rices William Donaldson,
Elizabeth Montagu
Accepting the Universe J. F. Hori.abin Divorce' and After Rey. J. G. Grant Fleming Mansfield Park Kingsley Amis" Knocking the Palace Christopher Sykes The Muggeridge Article J. 13. Boothroyd Passchendaele John Terraine Mr. Balsdon's Oxford C. N. Ward-Perkins Rome and the Saracens Hilary Corke
IN SEARCH OF A GOVERNMENT
Sin,—As a Liberal I am much interested in the articles in your issue for October 4 on the prospects of the Conservative Party. Your anonymous corre- spondent is quite right in his suggestion that the. Tories are not trusted any longer—and for precisely the reasons which he gives.
I can confirm this from my own canvassing ex- periences. We canvass regularly—practically every week, in fact—and we are now finding that people to whom It has never occurred to vote anything but Conservative are coming out to meet our can- vassers, to thank them for coming, and to assure them that they are going to vote Liberal next time. If, as they often do, they ask to see the candidate, they tell me the same story with no variations— that, whatever else they may do, they will never vote Conservative again.
In view of these facts, which I am finding all over the constituency, I say quite definitely that Lord Altrincham does not know what he is talking about. I do not believe the electorate is in the least in- terested in Independent Conservatives rejuvenating the Tory Party. A sufficiently large section of former Conservative voters has, in fact, finished with Con- servatism.
If Lord Altrincham does not believe me, he is welcome to canvass for his own views, and he can come into my constituency to try his hand. I will be quite willing to take him round. At least my presence would secure him against the grosser forms of insult.—Yours faithfully,
EDWARD RUSHWORTH Prospective Liberal Candidate Harborough Division Senior Common Room, University College, Leicester
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