SIR – Brian Holmans is trying to sell the Labour line that “PFI is not like privatisation” (T&A March 6). Well, the Private Funding Initiative was invented to get private companies to build and run public assets – in most people’s books this would be classed as privatisation.

Our public services should be there to serve our people, they should not be there for profit for private companies. Ukip would let local authorities buy out their PFI contracts early, therefore taking them out of the hands of big business.

Jason Smith, Ukip Parliamentary Candidate Bradford South, Woodlands Avenue, Queensbury