26 JULY 1997, Page 26

Press power

Sir: Paul Johnson (`The new barons ruling Britain', 5 July) raises the prospect (or even the requirement) of this government cut- ting the press editor barons down to size in much the same way that the government of the early 1980s levelled the union barons.

This must be optimistic. What chance is there of a government concerned above all else with its own re-election attacking the very group of people who helped to get it elected in the first place?

Ronaldshay

Littly Wood Cottage, Ousden, Newmarket, Suffolk