I AGREE with Councillor D Pearson (Letters, March 2) that, on the issue of Europe, the Prime Minister has done a massive U-turn.

What I can't understand is just why Mr Blair is so anxious to take Britain in to a currency that is depreciating at a yearly rate 54 per cent.

D LOWE, Hodgson Street, Darwen.

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