3 JANUARY 1969, Page 25

Sir: Patrick Cosgrave makes an assertion (if not an accusation)

that Mr Heath's speeches are lacking in moral concern for society.

I listened to his Blackpool speech and to his address to the Kent Young Conservatives at Folkestone. In spite of the vast range of his subject-matter, there was indeed precisely this deep concern. He showed not only a clear understanding of the problems but offered in- telligent, practical humane solutions.

If one considers that even his opponents refer to him as a man of honesty and integrity, one sees a man of stature not a pigmy, as some (for their own suspect reasons) would have us believe. He may be ploughing a lonely furrow, but at least he is ploughing it straight.

B. Topping Misling Farm, Stelling Minnis, nr. Canterbury