Jeremy Corbyn is misleading voters when it comes to workers' rights

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech on the EU in central London (Sky News)

Without the help or coercion of the EU, this country was working on social rights long before joining. By 1968 I was already getting three weeks’ holiday a year and those with 15 years’ experience in the same shipping & forwarding agents were getting four.

But even if we accept Jeremy Corbyn’s line that all such rights would be swept aside by the UK government, let us remember that the Conservatives can be swept aside too at general election time. Brussels bureaucrats can’t.

Edward Thomas
Eastbourne

Universal cancer vaccine is encouraging, but not a magic bullet

Your headline concerning scientists being close to finding universal cancer vaccine is entirely exaggerated.

Firstly, the discovery is a method of presenting antigens to the immune system; each RNA sample would had to be tailored to the specific type of cancer and probably the specific patient. Second, there has been no demonstrated clinical benefit shown as a result of the immune response.

It may be a small but significant step on the path to discovering new treatments for cancer but is no magic bullet.

Dr Simon Frain
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An early exit from Euro 2016 is likely

Now that the European Football Championship is almost upon us should we prepare ourselves for the inevitable Englexit?

Our friends over the border will also no doubt be expecting an early Walexit.

Bill Richardson
Worcester

Crossing borders illegally needs to be tackled

The whole immigration issue needs a rethink at the EU and the UN to fix new rules and laws. What we are currently witnessing is not immigration but a massive invasion by hundreds of thousands of people fleeing their own countries who have decided they want to live in Western Europe and will pay traffickers and risk their lives to get here.

This is anarchy and no law abiding nation state can accept this situation with people crossing borders illegally and setting up illegal campsites demanding their rights. We live in a world of nation states and every nation has the right to choose who it wishes to invite to live in its country. Governments must take responsibility for their own citizens.

Asylum seekers must seek refuge in a safe neighbouring country on the same continent. Anyone arriving illegally and uninvited has to be returned to their own country. Failure to make it clear to the world that there has to be an orderly and legal migration system will lead to a never ending wave of millions of desperate people believing they can all find a new life in Western Europe, North America and Australia at a time when we face millions of our own citizens living in poverty or out of work.

It can only lead to social unrest and the collapse of our own societies.

Peter Fieldman
Paris

Theresa May's hypocrisy is astounding

Theresa May has the temerity to describe the Fire Service as having a culture of bullying. This from an MP who voted to cut a Disability Benefit by £30 a week? Look to thyself first, hypocrite.

R Kimble
Hawksworth

The government can only hope that the youth vote is low

The government seems concerned that the youth will not participate in the EU Referendum vote. Surely they should be more worried if they do in fact turn out. I would think that on hearing from the Chancellor that house prices will fall 18 per cent if we leave the EU the youngsters could turn out in their droves and vote for Brexit.

Simon L
Halstead