YOUR correspondent Mr Dave Pearson (Mailbox, October 20) needs to get in touch with reality.

He criticises my stance on the Iraq War. Perhaps if he was a constituent of mine and therefore knew me, he would not have erroneously based his comments on the idea that I voted for the war. I did not.

The only apology which is necessary is one from him to me, for getting the facts so fundamentally wrong.

Stephen Hesford, MP for Wirral West