So Claire Perry thinks with the right plans our schools can be the best again (Gazette, February 5). I’m in full agreement, but this won’t happen under Conservative plans.

Eton-educated David Cameron has recently made it clear that under a Conservative government funding for state education would, in real terms, decline.

Of course, if you are wealthy enough, like Cameron and many other MPs, to send your children to private school, this policy will have zero impact.

Mrs Perry is happy to write about her comprehensive school education back in the 1970s, but omits to say whether her own children are state educated.

Either way, I find it astonishing that parents of any political persuasion can accept her assertion that a real-terms reduction in education spending somehow won’t result in a reduction in the quality of their children’s education.

Simon Thompson, Woodford Close, Devizes.