Letter: Message from France
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Surely there is a message loud and clear for Britain in the results of the first round of the French general elections: the rightist RPR of Jacques Chirac and the centre-right UDF of Valery Giscard d'Estaing won because they combined forces to trounce the Socialists.
Only if the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party fight similarly together can they truly claim to be serving the country and the electorate and end Conservative administrations which have been even longer in power and now manifest daily similar signs of degeneration.
Yours sincerely,
RICHARD WIGG
London, SE3
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