Stella Creasy’s article on taking babies into the House of Commons (Here’s why my baby was banned from parliament – and why we must all fight this, 25 November) brought back memories of Mid Glamorgan county council in the 1990s. The late councillor Ray Davies, of Machen, a champion of equalities even then, was often accompanied by his infant son. During an impassioned debate at a planning committee meeting, one councillor declared that another “has no right to speak on this subject. Ray Davies’s baby has been to more meetings on this matter than he has.”
Phil Jayne
Llangenny, Powys
