WHILE I support any action which supports marriage and family life, it is invidious of the Tory Party to seek votes on the back of reinstating a cut which they made when they were last in power.

I refer, of course, of the right of a non-working spouse to transfer their personal tax allowance to a working spouse -- which the Conservative government did away with in the early 1990s.

To seek acclamation for planning to right a wrong which they did in the first place seems to be an act of politicians who either cannot remember the events of 10 years ago, or believe the electorate to be similarly feeble-minded.

If this is the standard of our politicians then it is hardly surprising that they are held in such low esteem by so many.

They should raise their sights and their expectations of the intelligence of the electorate, so that we might have an intelligent debate and choice in what we are told is going to be an election year.

MR S COOPER, Whalley New Road, Billington.