Tory story

I’Ve been a Conservative Party member for 50 years, but twice I have resigned my membership in anger.

The first time was when edward Heath signed the Treaty of rome, which established the EEC.

I drifted back before leaving in disgust when Margaret Thatcher joined the ERM. I re-joined after she smashed the unions and restored British pride by retaking the Falkland Islands. I fear that I must resign again and lose my network of friends in the local association because of my anger at the policy of appeasement in the Chequers White Paper.

JOHN HARTLEY, Fordingbridge, Hants.