Heath and the leadership
Sir: Without wanting to express any opinion one way or the other as to whether Mr Heath ought to resign as Conservative leader, I should like to suggest that the shrill tone of your leading article is rather likely to gain him sympathy (which may well not be wholly deserved).
Surely it was fair enough, in the situation of balance that now exists in the Commons, that Mr Heath should stay on over the weekend while he talked to Mr Thorpe. Otherwise, in the event of the two men coming to an agreement, this would have entailed a W. ilson government taking over just tor the period between the election and the first vote in the Commons — a waste of everyone's time. Are you going to be as mindlessly vituperative about Mr Heath as the editor of the New Statesman has been about Mr Wilson? If so, I suppose it would produce a kind of symmetry.
Jonathan Guinness
Chairman, The Monday Club, 51-53 Victoria Street. London SW!.
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