REGARDING the Muffin the Mule stamps, why is Barbara Castle making a fuss about them (LET, May 25)?

When she was a Cabinet Minister, she showed no equivalent concern for the demise of Blackburn's textile industry.

She had her priorities wrong and is too late now as many of her women supporters eventually saw through her facade.

EDWARD ADAMSON, Pine Close, Rishton.

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