SO Stephen Dorrell has pledged his support for pathetic has-been Kenneth Clarke as Tory leader.

Did we expect anything else? Stephen Dorrell is one of the original Tory wets who has always craved for a total surrendering of our independence in favour of complete allegiance to the Franco-German Federal European state.

Sensible people know that with all three main parties ready to surrender our sovereignty and identity for ever, nothing will be able to stop it - but I imagine that such a situation would lose the Tories thousands of votes at election time.

It would be a black day for the whole of the country as well as for the Tories and Mr Dorrell would still not get his coveted cabinet post.

D E BRADBURY,

Worcester.