Tory tactics
The shadow cabinet has not grasped the big idea – to attack Labour on its own ground, for its failings as a socialist government.
The Tories should hammer home the crude statistics of "13 wasted years", showing how the gulf between rich and poor has widened; how child poverty and illiteracy have increased; along with illiteracy, numeracy drug abuse and the proportion of school-leavers with no educational qualifications; how the benefits culture has spread; how the provision of new housing has collapsed and the amount of council tax siphoned off by local authority pension schemes has grown.
VIVIAN LINACRE
Marshall Place
Perth