All present and correct
The accusation that the Liberal Democrats were somehow absent from Westminster for the opening of this session of Parliament is daft and wrong (Politics, 15 October). Of course we were there — in force. Don Foster was leading the battle on the licensing Bill and Lib Dem frontbenchers handled the Iraq, South Asia earthquake and business statements as usual.
The facts are that the Liberal Democrat shadow cabinet was using the weekend before Parliament resumed to have a strategy meeting about how to provide the real opposition to the government while the Conservatives are mired in their leadership debate. We returned to Westminster for the start of business on Monday at 2.30 p.m. The Tories put out a misleading press release suggesting something else.
It was a cheap shot and underlines how worried our political opponents are about the Lib Dem threat in this parliament.
Charles Kennedy MP
House of Commons SW1
Slackers’ charter
May I congratulate Charlotte Leslie on an excellent article (‘University is a waste of time’, 8 October).
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