Time for an English parliament

Sir— I feel I must respond to Norman Duff’s comments regarding an English parliament, (See Advertiser 4th February).

Sir— I feel I must respond to Norman Duff’s comments regarding an English parliament, ( See Advertiser, February 4).

Firstly, what seems to be a fair point put well by Norman, he bases his statistics on seats required to form the British parliament and not an English devolved parliament as the seats would be contested in a different voting system, for example,  proportional representation (PR).

If PR was used in England the Tories would never get into power at all, as proportionately more people voted Labour in the last General election than any of the other parties that is why we had a hung parliament.

In fact, in every general election since Thatcher’s 1979 victory, the people of England have proportionately and consistently favoured Labour over any other party as a head count of total votes cast. Reference the office of national statistics data.

Anyhow I think as long as English politicians, held to account by English voters, have English issues at heart (as they would do if they were members of an English parliament) ,does it really matter what party they represent? I hope this brings a little clarity to the debate.

David Miller, Maltby, Rotherham.