Letter: In Brief

Monday 19 October 1998 18:02 EDT

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Sir: It is certainly defensible for children to inherit "talents, abilities and wealth" from their forebears (Noel Currer-Briggs, letter, 19 October). What is indefensible is that their inheritance gives them the right to govern over us, when the "talents and abilities" have manifestly not been passed on - even if they had been there in the first place.

Mr Currer-Briggs has observed no revolutionary fervour for House of Lords reform, but really, Sutton-in-the-Isle, Cambridgeshire, does not sound the sort of place that would reflect the population as a whole. He should take a few soundings around here.

IVAN SCRIMSHAW

Upton,

Merseyside

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