16 OCTOBER 2004, Page 38

I'm backing Blair

From George Booth Sir: Peter Oborne CA question of trust', 9 October) asked us to make a choice.

I find the choice easy. I will stick to the team of Blair and Brown (preceded by Major and Clarke), which has brought us consistently good growth, high employment, prosperity, low inflation, low interest rates, better state pensions and better performance from the National Health Service (based on own and family experience).

If we return to right-wing policies from Mr Howard's past associations, we will be back to what these policies brought us last time: high unemployment, high interest rates, high inflation, recession, unsatisfactory growth, negative equity on property, and public services beggared by low investment. All this 'achieved' despite our once-in-a-lifetime bonus of North Sea oil.

George Booth Milton Keynes. Buckinghamshire