Clive Booth (Letters, July 23) asks the question "How big does a false premise have to be before resignation is the only honourable thing to do?" in respect of Tony Blair's position after the Butler Commission report.
This despite the said report vindicating the Prime Minister in respect of his personal awareness and integrity regarding flawed intelligence.
He additionally reports that Hugh Bayley voted to take military action with the government. What he does of course fail to state is that this was a very serious decision by our MP and one taken only after a careful analysis of both the available intelligence and his own moral conscience, something that is fairly well known locally to all but those who read the Daily Mail for unbiased political commentary.
Perhaps Mr Booth is either unaware of this through a disinterest in local matters or possibly he was simply using this opportunity (no doubt briefed by central office) to move the debate on who is best equipped to manage this country away from the areas that actually count, because frankly, we can expect to see a Labour government for the next million years on the basis of what the Tories have to say to the British people at the moment.
David Forrester,
Main Street,
Knapton, York.
Updated: 11:15 Wednesday, July 28, 2004
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