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SIR – As a churchwarden for 16 years, and with 20 years’ experience as an immigration judge, I would like to offer my thoughts regarding the granting of asylum on the basis of “conversion” to Christianity (report, February 5). My experience of hearing appeals was that the process of assessing whether conversion had truly taken place was not only extraordinarily difficult, but also wide open to abuse. Any testing on the basis of knowledge of the Bible or of Christian t...

SIR – If the latest poll comes as a surprise to Conservative MPs (“Tories facing 1997-style wipeout”, report, January 15), therein lies the problem. In their Westminster cocoon, they have completely lost touch with voters and their concerns, instead wasting their time virtue-signalling on net zero and the Rwanda policy (which would be unnecessary had the Tories done anything about illegal migration over the past decade). A succession of at best inept and at worst dishonest p...

SIR – At recent Prime Minister’s Questions, the leaders of the Labour, Liberal Democrat and Scottish National parties seemed interested only in embarrassing Boris Johnson and trying to get him to resign.

Harry and Meghan arrive at Westminster Abbey on Commonwealth Day 2020 Credit: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP SIR – Why is it that those who complain the loudest about press intrusion go out of their way to court it? However much celebrities (as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have essentially become) would like to curate where and how they appear in the press, their obsession with keeping a high profile results in heightened public interest in them – and thus an inevitable appearance in publications...