CORRESPONDENT Des More wrote: “This Government has brought our country to the verge of bankruptcy...” (HAS, June 18).

Should he not have added “by not reversing Mrs Thatcher’s doctrines of the free market, deregulating the City and allowing the banking sector to make risky and foolish investments”?

I only recall Liberal Democrat Vince Cable warning of the risks then being undertaken, not members of the Labour or Conservative parties.

Eric Gendle, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough.