THE Home Office leaflet sent to all households explaining the voting system for the Euro elections on June 10 risks seriously misleading voters and seriously damaging the interests of new and small parties.

It shows how each voter can cast one vote for the party of his or her choice, whose candidates are listed. The sample ballot paper shows the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Liberal Democrats, the Millennium Party and two independents. This could lead people to believe that they cannot vote for other parties such as the Pro Euro Conservatives.

Quite apart from the injustice of it, one of the ideas of the new proportional voting system is to make it easier for candidates of new and small parties to be elected.

The leaflet, in discriminating against all but Conservatives, Labour and LibDems, runs counter to this. Our new party is standing precisely to give people more choice, a chance to vote for a Conservative party which is in favour of British membership of the European Union and adopting the new euro currency, unlike Mr Hague's party.

Readers can vote for any party on the ballot paper.

ANDREW PEARCE (North West England candidate, Pro Euro Conservative Party), Lingdale Road, West Kirby, Wirral.

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