JOHN Humphrys, on BBC Radio 4, is going to travel around the UK before polling day, asking “ordinary folk”: do you feel better now after 13 years of New Labour than you did before May 1997?

I have been feeling steadily worse since about 1956. Almost everything I supported and passionately believed in has either been scrapped, diluted, rewritten, changed, altered, ruined or replaced with things ten times inferior.

David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.