11 DECEMBER 1999, Page 42

Third Way wants longer

From Mr R.J. Grant Sir: There may be those who think Michael Diboll's discernment of incipient fascism in the Blairite Third Way is paranoid (`Unite against the centre', 27 November). But not we, who remember that earlier in the year Lord Mancroft proposed in the House of Lords a Bill to stop any government extending the life of Parliament beyond five years. New Labour opposed the Bill.

R.J. Grant 27 Arnian Court, Aughton, Ormskirk, Lancashire