18 OCTOBER 1997, Page 36

Sir: Simon Brocklebank-Fowler (aged 36) is wrong. Peter Lilley was

the best-looking of the Conservative candidates in the leader- ship race: Clarke, too fat; Redwood, too thin; Hague, too bald; Lilley, not perfect, but, hell, beggars cannot be choosers.

Katie Grant

(qualifying, just, as Tory girl, aged 38), 4 Belmont Crescent, Glasgow