I READ with interest when our esteemed Prime Minister told the Australian parliament that he would tough it out over Iraq.

What brave talk for a man who hasn't got the courage to face up to the British nation.

What he really should do to prove himself is to relinquish his post as Prime Minister and take a taxpayers' flight to Iraq and prove to the world and to the brave men of the forces, wherever they are, that he will tough it out alongside them. Then we will know that he really means business.

Stanley Arundell,

Cockret Road,

Selby.

Updated: 09:03 Saturday, April 01, 2006