LETTERS A party man
Sir: If Neil Hamilton (Fayed paid me noth- ing', 18 October) was so convinced by the criticisms of me in the DTI report on House of Fraser, why, five days after the report was published on 7 March 1990, did he attend a party at Harrods to celebrate the fifth anniversary of my acquisition of the company?
The DTI inspectors' sour comments upon my name, which now he endorses, did not inhibit Mr Hamilton from raising a glass of champagne to toast the company's success in the Georgian restaurant here on 12 March. When both the American President and the British Prime Minister bear names that are not the same as their fathers' and the Home Secretary swops Hecht for Howard, the family name of the Duke of Norfolk, the premier peer of the realm, Mr Hamilton is rather hard on me for being Al Fayed when I have never even mentioned that as a student he wanted to be II Duce.
M Al Fayed
Harrods, London SW1
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