28 OCTOBER 2000, Page 46

Great White Queen

From Mr Edward Fitsall Sir: I am delighted that Stephen Glover supposes that Peter Mandelson 'may still, one day be foreign secretary' (Media stud- ies, 21 October).

I cannot wait for one of our old colonial friends to call him the 'Great White Queen from across the water'.

Edward Fitsall

Baldwins Hill, West Sussex