SIR – The Tories have recently claimed that more than half of all girls in deprived areas fall pregnant before their 18th birthday. The claim is, at best, inept and, at worst, totally bonkers.
The Tories are so out of touch with family life in Britain that they believe over half of teenage girls in the poorest areas fall pregnant, our town and cities are more like The Wire, and that folk will get married for a few extra quid.
If they really believe Britain is like this, it’s amazing that Tory MPs can pluck up the courage to leave their mansions.
They should lower their drawbridges, spend less time tending their moats and duck houses, and join the rest of us in the real world.
Councillor Nader Fekri, (Lib Dem PPC, Keighley and Ilkley) Hope Street, Hebden Bridge
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