13 MARCH 1993, Page 30

History lesson

Sir: The Secretary of State for Education in `Just keep rolling along' (30 January) claims that it was a Tory government that gave the vote to women in 1918.

Lloyd George did much that was deplorable, such as splitting the Liberal Party and, with full Tory support, letting loose the Black and Tans, but neither his friends nor his foes would have dared called him a Conservative.

Richard Moore

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