I welcome the two recent defections to the Conservative Party from the Lib Dems in Oxford and do not for one minute think that they should seek re-election as a result because they will be judged when the time is right, as will the Lib Dems as a whole.
The Conservative Party recently published its statement of aims and values - Built to Last.
In his foreword, David Cameron put "a responsibility revolution" at the heart of the modern Conservative Party's mission.
It is the mission of the new modern and compassionate Conservative Party: a responsibility revolution to create an opportunity society - a society in which everybody is a somebody, a doer not a done-for.
Welcome on board.
GEOFFREY BROOKING, Pleasant Street Oxford
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