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SIR – The emphasis of the Whitehall Civil Service on identity politics and its recognition of 100 genders, which may need employees to spend “up to 20 per cent of their time” working on such matters (report, May 28), has left me almost speechless, a very rare position for me.

SIR – Sir Graham Brady (“We must end this disastrous assault on liberty”, Comment, December 12) gives some hope that the Government is powerless to extend restrictions on our freedoms.