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Your support makes all the difference.Our attempts to expedite the investigation by the Metropolitan Police (MPS) into alleged electoral offences by the Vote Leave campaign seems to be making waves.
It prompted a letter from the Met Police to the lawyers acting on our behalf suggesting the delay is due to a failure by the Electoral Commission to hand over papers needed to complete their investigation. The Commission has countered by accusing the MPS of “unfounded, misleading and incorrect” allegations.
Whatever the cause of the foot dragging, the political consequences of this case couldn’t be more serious. At the centre of it is a man on the cusp of being our next prime minister. As a former key committee member of Vote Leave and figurehead for the campaign, Boris Johnson has demonstrated a worrying disregard for the rule of law. His implication in this as yet unresolved case is a key reason why he is not fit to be prime minister.
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Baroness Jenny Jones
Corbyn must go
Jeremy Corbyn’s 18 per cent rating as a potential leader as viewed by the public must now prove it’s time for him to go. I joined the Labour Party over 30 years ago, and I would guess many of the policies that Corbyn supports, I too would support. But as someone capable of leading us to a general election victory it’s not going to happen. His stance on Europe as a Leaver, and his notion of the UK being an “island of socialism” without the ties of the European “restrictions”, went out with Five Year Plans and reining in the Kulaks.
The four million children in poverty cannot afford five more years of this dictatorial and class hating government. So please Jeremy go.
Francis Kenny
Liverpool
Look on the bright side
I feel that Roisin O’Connor’s downbeat article concerning Alex Mann’s performance with rapper Dave at Glastonbury, while not wrong, rather misses the point.
If our goal is to build a racially and culturally integrated society, then Dave and Alex’s performance is a forty yard screamer that Thiago Silva himself would be proud of. We should be celebrating wildly. It is the dream in action.
One in the eye for Johnson, Farage, Powell, et al. Streams of words, leading to rivers of love. Feel it.
Simon Van der Velde
Gosforth
Brexiteers have got it backwards
The visceral hatred of the EU expressed by Tom Peck’s interviewees is real enough but it is based upon a false belief that the EU is in charge of the UK. If the UK really were a vassal state then it would not have been able to have opted out of Schengen or the Euro – and a lot more than 1 per cent of government money would be being paid over to the EU each year.
Duncan Lyons
London SW18
Darroch’s leaked memorandum was nothing surprising
What Donald Trump does not seem to realise is that ambassadors from all major countries worldwide report regularly to their capitals about the antics in his White House. The only difference is that Ambassador Darroch’s secure messaging system was breached and its contents revealed. If Trump did but know it, the ambassadors are all “not serving their country well” by describing the functioning of his administration and keeping their own governments informed about what is going on in Washington DC.
But will somebody let the president know?
Michael Heppner
London N21
Businessman first, politician second
To understand Donald Trump, you must not allow consideration of diplomacy or politics to cloud your vision. He is interested in neither. For him the US is simply an extension of Trump Inc. He throws himself aggressively into business with countries, offering deals backed up by rewards or punishments.
His business team is full of people over which he has total control, being a mix of similarly aggressive traders, and his family; those that oppose him are sacked or punished. Some of the deals gather interest, if they do not he saturates the media with his view of the huge success and moves onto the next commercial target.
This new wave of global governance should be termed “Estatesmanship” rather than “Statesmanship”.
Matt Minshall
King’s Lynn
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