Matthew Biddlecombe News Today

SIR – Recent letters have discussed inheritance tax (December 28). I am 86 years old. I was born and brought up in the Black Country, the eldest of four boys, whose father was a holder up in a steel rolling mill.

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SIR – The proposed reduction in the highest rate of tax was, economically speaking, the correct thing to do.

SIR – I share Alan Rogers’s frustration (Letters, August 13) at the absence of energy from a list of policy priorities in a Conservative Party questionnaire for members – presumably for the benefit of our next prime minister.

SIR – Tim Wigmore (Sport, December 26) is right:

SIR – Let me get this right.