SIR – After a long absence, the Labour party has at last made a policy statement to the effect that they would like to achieve ‘full employment’, an ambition which I am sure is shared by every other party, large or small, but is in fact totally unrealistic and almost certainly unattainable with continued unlimited inward migration from the EU distorting the labour market here.

Although the shadow minister concerned, Liam Byrne, did qualify this by suggesting that public sector expansion might be the key to it.

But in the real world most people know that expansion of public sector jobs on that scale could only ever be achieved by higher taxes and/or more Government borrowing.

After what we all suffered under Labour last time, ie, income tax doubled for the low-paid and OAPs, council tax doubled for those few who actually pay it themselves, petrol duty up, along with vehicle excise duty etc, who would want to go down that road again?

The sad truth is that not only the UK but all of mainland Europe has a serious unemployment problem due to the twin factors of the global economy supplying imports rather than goods being produced and over-population caused by mass migration.

History shows that the only solution to such problems has been war, with millions of men under arms and industry working flat out supplying their needs, followed by post-war reconstruction. God forbid that it ever happens again, but who knows?

D S Boyes, Rodley Lane, Leeds