Madam, In your report "MP hits back on city beds crisis" (7 March) you quote local MP Paul Keetch as having said: "Voting Labour in Hereford at the last election almost let a Tory MP back in - I doubt that is what Tony Blair really wants".
I am sure it isn't! But what all this has got to do with the much more important subject of the extra 120 beds that Hereford Hospital so badly needs I cannot imagine.
However, as Paul Keetch seems to be having another bout of electoral amnesia can I just correct the facts, as the Conservative candidate for Hereford at the election.
The reason he almost lost the election is not because local people voted Labour but because huge numbers of his previous supporters deserted him.
The Liberal Democrat majority fell by 85% from 6,658 to 968, making Hereford now one of the most marginal seats in the country.
VIRGINIA TAYLOR
Parliamentary Spokesman, Hereford Conservatives.
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