I HAVE just received a copy of a questionnaire from the Tory Party.

It asks me what I think about their new policy, the "tax guarantee". Nobody seems to have told them that Michael Portillo ditched that policy weeks ago.

It then goes on to ask me about the "patients' guarantee". Unfortunately everybody now knows that William Hague himself dropped that one a few weeks ago.

And then it talks about the "sterling guarantee". But, incredibly, they are only going to oppose the Single Currency for five years.

Would you buy a second-hand guarantee from these people?

TIM CARTER,

Hollins Lane, Bury.