SIR - Tony Eaves (Letters, June 8) laments that in the UK we still have to use metric weights and refers to "our masters in Brussels".
For the record, the key decisions to go metric were all taken by the UK and were made well before we were members of the EU.
The original decision to convert to the metric system in the UK was agreed by an all-party select committee in the House Of Commons back in 1862. The vote was unanimous. It took until 1965 to decide to finally phase out imperial measures - and again the decision was made in our own Parliament. But the decision was never implemented, until Tony Blair came to power.
Philip Bushill-Matthews MEP, Brussels.
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