Who's Playing Walter Mitty ?
SIR,-1 really cannot allow the jibe and quite untrue statement made by Alan Watkins in his comment on my letter this week that 'I have been out of active politics so long that I have probably forgotten how political correspondents obtain their information,' to go unchallenged.
Not only was I a parliamentary candidate at every general election since the war up to and including 1959, but during the last two campaigns I was a supporting speaker in at least twenty of the `marginals' throughout the country and am quite sure I did something to oust the Tory in a fair number of these. I was short-listed for the candi- dature at Preston North for the 1964 election to be Julian Amery's opponent there. I was runner-up to the man then chosen. I am, in addition, an active member of my own local party, of the Fabian Society, and of other vital elements in the Labour party. Your correspondent should check his facts before making inaccurate slurs. If he had done this, one might feel more confidence in the truthfulness of his criticism of my ex-parliamentary colleagues now in much higher positions than I am.
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