SIR – Max Hey (Letters, December 22) says we have a Conservative Government and the Lib Dems are “irrelevant”.

Just check against our election manifesto. So far: tax threshold raised by £1,000, increase in capital gains tax, £900m crackdown on tax evasion, linked state pension to earnings, stopped progress on Trident, scrapped ID cards, stopped Tories cutting inheritance tax, agreed deal for Equitable Life policyholders, commenced plans to separate investment and retail banking, plans to roll-out superfast broadband, introduced bank levy, set up Green Investment Bank, protected Post Office network, introduced pupil premium, commenced integrating health and social care, prioritised dementia research, made £400m available to provide respite for carers, extended free early education to disadvantaged two-year olds, ended child detention, protected students from low-income families from tuition fees increase, introduced proposals to make prisoners work and contribute wages to compensate victims, agreed referendum on fairer voting system, introduced fixed-term Parliaments... and more.

Perhaps the most important achievement has been putting aside our differences with the Conservatives to work together on reducing a national deficit that is still getting bigger by £400m per day!

Irrelevant? I don’t think so, and not bad for just 57 MPs in eight months.

David Ward MP, Bradford East, Greenfield Lane, Idle, Bradford