YOUR headline on your report (LET, May 9) on my good friend, Burnley MP Peter Pike, crudely distorted my account on his parliamentary skills.
In my book, Commons Knowledge, I praised Peter as a skilled and resourceful MP.
At the bidding of our party whips, all backbenchers are instructed at times to filibuster. It is a technique to fill time and delay damaging action by political opponents.
I have nothing but admiration for Peter Pike as one of the very best constituency MPs and a sophisticated operator in Westminster.
PAUL FLYNN, MP, (Newport West), House of Commons, London.
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