I HAVE total sympathy for the Blair children who appear to be caught in the middle of the controversy concerning their parents.

It is, however very different with Cherie Blair, a woman who in wishing to be First Lady seems to think she is equal, if not better, than our Queen.

However, showing her understandable dislike for the Daily Mail, she made her stand.

Without doubt she would have gained more public sympathy sooner had not the other normally pathetically loyal New Labour Press and the BBC also joined in the exposure of mistake after mistake by either the Blairs or the Downing Street Press office.

So someone got it wrong. It can sometimes be a rough old world out there.

BRIAN HUNT,

Worcester.