Pascal Ricketts News Today

SIR – Surely the purpose of the Covid Inquiry (Leading Article, December 8) should be to establish how and where the virus started; how well Britain responded to it; and, relative to other nations, the mistakes made and how to do better next time. What we actually hear is a load of deeply personalised questioning, with little apparent purpose beyond blaming and condemning individual people – none of them medical, which is rather puzzling.

SIR – If your earnings come from the Government, either directly or indirectly through subsidies, you can be as aggressive as you wish in your demands for more pay.

SIR – Tory MPs have chosen electoral suicide, having once again not listened to their constituents.

SIR – Boris Johnson had the world at his feet when he took power with a large majority.

SIR – “The EU will never recover from its Ukraine shame,” was the heading on Camilla Tominey’s Comment article (May 28).