Voters heading to the polls may want to ponder on what has happened to the 'star' politicians since the last election five years ago.

Many of the most high profile ministers ended up being sacked by their own Prime Minister David Cameron, or they resigned. They include:

Andrew Lansley in Health: he spent seven years devising an undisclosed £3 billion top-down NHS 'reform' scheme that the Cabinet could not understand, yet ministers agreed to implement in a 30 minute meeting. This decision put Epsom hospital directly into the firing line.

Michael Gove in Education: he became toxic to parents, teachers and professionals alike and had to go. He also funded new schools where they were not needed.

Liam Fox in Defence: he allowed his 'special advisor' to attend high level international security meetings for no genuine reason.

David Willetts, Universities: he raised students' fees, but sold-off accrued Government debt at a loss of hundreds of millions of pounds because he knew students were not making the required repayments. The future funding 'black hole' created by a revised repayment scheme will run into tens of billions.

While Epsom's own MP Chris Grayling has survived in-post as justice minister, he surely cannot be proud that his harsh regime led to 87 suicides in a year.

Clearly, our votes today are vitally important.

Ian Strutt,

The Greenway

Epsom