27 JULY 1974, Page 4

Sir: No need to wait for the next election: there

will probably be no substantial majority anyway. The matter is so urgent that party leaders should get together at once — not even wait another month! To stop the two big parties bickering over the leadership, let them agree on a Liberal as Prime Minister, with one Conservative and one Socialist as joint deputy PM. The Whigs threw up many a good leader in the past. And a capable Liberal heading the sort of triumvirate suggested above (given a national Cabinet as steering-committee) would have a vital chance to rally the country and save us from our present quandary. When the election does eventually come, I intend to vote Liberal for a Change. Moot such action as somewhat aleatory, and my riposte is, "Aren't the two big parties at the moment already gambling with the nation's future?" Frederich G. Rich ford 20 Stainsby Street, St Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex.