ONLY a Labour candidate could claim that EU recruits are valuable (Hereford Times Letters, February 5).

Perhaps Sally Prentice could explain this to all the unemployed and all the low-wage earners who have seen their income slashed with the influx of ‘cheap foreign labour’ – but as it was her party, under the leadership of Tony Blair, that opened the door to free movement and caused all this, then she can’ t.

BRENDAN ELLIS Kingsland