Why did your feature writer of the year, Angela Wintle, not tell us Ann Widdecombe (The Argus, June 12) actually raised the state pension age for women to 65?

This measure steals five years of retirement from women to achieve equality with men at an age that is far too high in a supposedly "civilised" society ?

It is about to impact on occupational pensions, especially public sector schemes, and will also raise the qualifying age for travel concessions.

It is also more than likely to have the same effect on other benefits currently available at age 60, such as free NHS prescriptions and winter fuel payments.

Now we learn that Widdecome is contemplating her own retirement, well below 65 of course, leaving a thoroughly pernicious legacy of so much that is still poisoning our body politic.

Sheer rank hypocrisy.

-Peter Jackson, Hove