IN a number of letters, Mr G Broadhurst, of Hyndburn Conservative Association, has questioned the accuracy of national opinion polls showing Labour well ahead of the Conservatives.

Is there any chance that we could hear Mr Broadhurst's thoughts on the Wirral South by-election result, or Labour's current 20 per cent poll lead, or the news that, in local government by-election results over the last three months, the Tories are trailing behind both the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats?

PHIL RILEY, (Secretary, Blackburn Labour Party), Pleckgate Road, Blackburn.

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