Letter: Our national wealth was squandered
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Sir: You report Michael Heseltine's warning to clergy "if they trespass on the field of politics" (report, 17 March). Does his use of terms more appropriate to landed gentry protecting their property reveal a need for a reminder that in this life we are all tenants, and the lease is quite short? Put the shotgun down squire, you don't own this field!
The Rev STEPHEN LEEKE
Warboys, Cambridgeshire
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