I am not sure what was worse, David Cameron’s “put on a proper suit, do up your tie and sing the national anthem” comment (The politics sketch, 25 February) or the braying on the Conservative benches that followed. The bankers whose actions brought about the collapse of the financial system had impeccable dress sense. Unfortunately, those who have suffered from the crisis don’t have the money to “put on a proper suit”.
Declan O’Neill
Oldham
• “No tie – just a defeat for unscripted Dave’s off the cuff remark” suggests that Jeremy Corbyn missed a trick in his response to Cameron’s ill-judged insult. In keeping with the intellectual level of the exchange, Corbyn could have replied: “I don’t like the cut of your jibe.”
Mike Pender
Cardiff
• Nice picture of Dave, sans suit or tie, on pages 6 and 7 today (EU referendum, 25 February).
(Fr) Alec Mitchell
Manchester
• The student body at my old college want to return to Benin the fine bronze cockerel looted in 1897 (Report, 22 February). But surely they should be demanding the return of the college buildings to the nuns of the Benedictine order from whom they were ruthlessly taken by Bishop Alcock in 1496?
Robert Avery
London
• In view of Boris Johnson’s recent Damascene conversion to Europhobia (Report, 22 February), isn’t it time to redesignate him as half man, half Brexit?
Charlie Harris
Cardiff
• Just asking, but will the out campaign include the Eurovision song contest?
Bob Hargreaves
Bury
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