IN response to Mubeen Mulla's letter (LET, December 30) stating that A D Gordon is talking nonsense by saying the government will price out foreign holidays by putting up the price of passports.

I agree with A D Gordon. M M Mulla has lost the plot in her support of the government.

One can only get a cheap holiday if you are retired and can go whenever you want and can also afford the holiday or you are self-employed or your employer lets you take a holiday when it suits you.

If you not want to disrupt your children's education by taking them out of school during term time, then these parents have to pay a higher price for their holiday.

This unacceptable rise in the cost of passports is yet another stealth tax fetched in by this Labour government, one of many we have been made to endure since Labour won the election.

H HAMER, Lowther Place, Blackburn.