19 FEBRUARY 2000, Page 30

From Lady Braybrooke Sir: I was interested to read in

the article by William Cash that Lady Walston's parrot was given to repeating the phrase 'To hell with the Pope'. When I met this bird in the early Sixties, all I can remember it croaking, in an American accent, is 'Vote Labour'.

Perina Braybrooke

Saffron Walden, Essex