SIR – Now Labour is on the campaign trail for the Council elections, maybe people ought to look at their past record rather than the Coalition.

For example, who but Labour gave free university tuition and NHS prescriptions, etc, to Scotland and Wales, while everyone in England has to pay thousands?

The ‘right-to-buy’ houses which exacerbated the shortage of social housing could have been ended by Labour, but they chose not only to perpetuate the policy, but routinely gave priority for housing to immigrants and asylum-seekers.

Instead of providing a realistic state pension, Labour instead inflicted ‘means-tested’ credits on us, which not only involved more wasteful bureaucracy, but made the small personal pensions or savings of many people worthless.

Council tax more than doubled under Labour in a few years, but now for the first time in living memory it’s not going up, thanks to the Coalition.

People need to look beyond the colour of party literature or candidates’ rosettes, because things are not always what they seem.

D S Boyes, Rodley Lane, Leeds