I feel that at heart Jeremy Corbyn is probably a very nice fellow, the sort of lovely man who one would like to live next door to one's ageing widowed mother - handy for offering to change light bulbs and feed the cat.

However, I am utterly sick of him, and other members of his party, banging on about about how unfair it is that anyone who has worked jolly hard all their lives, should not be able to pass on however much money that they wish, to their offspring, without incurring yet more tax.

For what reasons would I like to hand our hard-earned capital to our daughters?

1) I would like them to be able to stay at home for however long they wish in order to raise their family themselves without having to schlepp off to some childminder with a sleepy child at 7am, pick up a fraught toddler at 7pm, and then at 8pm start a bedtime routine, make a meal and whizz round with a vacuum cleaner.

2) Our daughters live in the south of England. I would like them to be able to buy a nice home - not a million pound palace but somewhere comfortable with a decent garden - without the worries of a huge mortgage and wondering, as I did at the age of 30, and having given up my job temporarily to look after my babies, whether I could actually afford hygiene essentials as well as a pint of milk.

I too, have been there you see.

My husband and I attended state schools, followed by university, married at 21 and 23 and worked hard all our lives paying absolutely our fair share of tax - why should we now have to pay even more?

We have our home on the market for a significant amount of money - we bought it as a hovel for £220,000 in 1988, it now houses just us as well as my 94 year-old-mother, and we intend to downsize.

Quite frankly, if we too could find a way of investing the cash for our children where Mr Corbyn, his shadow chancellor or anyone else riddled with jealousy for those of us who have amassed capital, couldn't get at it, we would.

We would like to think that our children - also incredibly hard workers - will benefit from the lot.

If he and his supporters would like to live in a socialist society then why don't they all beetle off and live in one, and leave good old Blighty to those of us who have made, and are making, a success of our lives from sheer hard work and forward thinking?

Louise Broughton

Bowness