Letter: Hansard holds evidence on ministers and the truth
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: When ministers (or for that matter other public figures) lie, it is I believe obvious to most of us, whether William Waldegrave tells us so or not. It is, after all, no more difficult for an intelligent public to detect a minister's lie or evasive answer than for parents to know when children are trying to hide the truth.
What I have so far been unable to discover, however, is whether ministers know that we know. Or do they really think they are fooling us?
Yours,
P. J. SCHEUER
London, NW11
10 March
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