30 OCTOBER 1964, page 13

What. Happened

SiR,—Frank Byers should not be too anxious to condemn a system which puts nine of his friends in the House although they polled on average a mere 11,618 votes apiece. This is......

Sta,—has Mr. Frank Byers Already Forgotten That It Was His

own intervention at Bolton East in 1960 which forced the hand of the Bolton West Con- servatives this year? BRIAN DORMER TAYLOR Bod Awe!, Gors Avenue, Holyhead, Anglesey, N.......

America's Election

From CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS A s I have already written, I do not pretend, from a fortnight's experience confined to New England, New York and now Kentucky (where I write), to be......

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SIR, — Mr. Frank Byers writes: 'We may well look forward to a steady decline of Conservative rep- resentation in this country over many years—the nation going forward with more......

Sir,—i Read With Interest Frank Byers's Article...

Byers criticises our poll because forty (in fact the real number was thirty-seven) of the constituencies in our sample of one hundred contained no Liberal candidate. As our......