IF and when Gordon Brown takes over as Prime Minister from Tony Blair in the coming spring, his first job should be the sacking of Ruth Kelly, New Labour's Communities Secretary.

How on earth can she hold her head up and preach Labour party policies denouncing private education and praising the comprehensive system, only to send her own child to a £15,000-per-year private school that feeds Eton and Harrow?

Bob Waite, Holgate, York.