22 FEBRUARY 1975, page 3

Electoral Reform

Sir: Lord Beaumont's article (February 15 ), 'The Real Case for Electoral Reform', sets out some cogent arguments in support of a change of the Present electoral system but does......

Leading Lady

Sir: Bravo, Margaret Thatcher! Congratulations, too, for the hundred and forty-six Conservative MPs who had the good sense to elect her as their leader. And top marks to Patrick......

Sir: The News About Mrs Margaret Thatcher's Election As...

of the Conservative Party is the best thing to happen for a long time! I hope one of her first steps will be to recognise that within the Tories, as in the Labour Party, there......

Sir: Congratulations On Picking The Winner, Double...

crowing about it, and treble congratulations on that marvellous cartoon of two-gun Wyatt Thatcher gunning down the baddies in Westminster's OK Corral — in both the foreground......

To Demur Is Human

Sir: Bill Grundy never lets the facts get in his way, and it would probably be churlish to blame him for that. But your readers should know that the Sun, " . . . the home of......

Tory History

From the Rt Hon. Julian Amery, MP Sir: In his Political Commentary of February 15, Patrick Cosgrave writes, "Mr Gilmour simply does not understand the history of the......

Market Debate

Sir: 'Me thinks the gentleman doth protest too much!' Mr Ernest Wistrich of the European Movement pleads poverty (February 15) as his funds shrink to less than £200,000. Yet not......

From Nigel Lawson, Mp Sir: To The Shame Of Your

paper of which I was at one time editor, there is not a word of truth in the reference to me in 'A Spectator's Notebook' in your issue of February 15. Your ill-informed......