Letter

I WAS sorry to read Lord Tebbit's attack on Neil Kinnock ('Kinnock couldn't run a fish shop - Tebbit', 4 October) in which he refers to him as 'a man whose intellectual abilities have been demonstrated to be so small'. I have spoken to Mr Kinnock a number of times, mainly about education, and would say that he and Lord Joseph are the two most stimulating of all the politicians with whom I have discussed education. Lord Tebbit's attack on Mr Kinnock's proven ability is a bit much coming from someone whose pronouncements are not exactly intellectually rich.

E C Wragg, University of Exeter