Fiona Millar correctly points out (This is the moment to blast apart the tired old ‘choice’ agenda, 13 June) that the Democratic Unionist party is strongly in favour of the retention of secondary modern schools (along with grammar schools for the minority of the population) but its views ought to have little impact on votes in the House of Commons given the Conservatives’ principled answer to the West Lothian question: MPs from Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish constituencies should not vote on matters that affect only England. Presumably, the principle remains even after 12 Conservative MPs have been returned from Scotland to Westminster.
Raymond Crozier
Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan
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