Thank you Mr Sunak, for showing us your true colours

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Several years ago, I wrote to my MP – a certain Mr Rishi Sunak (AP)

Compare the urgency in commissioning and executing Rishi Sunak’s leak inquiry with the inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic.

Which is the most fundamentally important? Which has the most critical lessons to learn that will improve our population’s welfare? But which is still being procrastinated?

It is scandalous, but what else do we expect from this shambles of entitled liars?

Tim Sidaway

Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

Thank you Mr Sunak for showing us your true colours, or as they might say in Yorkshire, which side your bread is buttered.

Ian Wingfield

Bamford

Tax loopholes

Several years ago, when people actually accrued interest on their savings, I wrote to my MP – a certain Mr Rishi Sunak.

I asked him why, if the country was so hard-up that it taxed the interest I made on a holiday spending money bank account, which came to the princely sum of £1.25, it didn’t close the tax loopholes that we had.

I received a very condescending and standard form filled letter back. Now I know why.

Ken Twiss

Yarm

Self-promotion

The trip to Ukraine by Boris Johnson was obvious self-promotion but the thumbs-up to the camera? What are those in a worn-torn country to make of this “everything is alright” gesture?

We know what it is meant to signify to those in the UK. “Aren’t I a clever fellow, forget Partygate, the local elections are coming soon you know.”

When are the people going to wise up and kick out this egocentric, poor man’s Benny Hill?

Francis Kenny

Liverpool

Refugees welcome

I agree entirely with Linda Evans in yesterday’s Letters. It was yet another grand gesture that was designed to enhance the image of our prime minister under the guise of solidarity with and compassion for the Ukrainian people.

Meanwhile, pitiful progress is made with the processing of visa applications by those wishing to enter the UK. The inhumanity of the UK government is highlighted in the case of the Majawala family. It appears to have been easy to smuggle Johnson in and out of Kyiv in order to secure a clutch of photo opportunities; whilst the simple business of allowing vulnerable children to be reunited with their parents is made unnecessarily laborious and frustrating.

Maybe his compassion and solidarity would have been better demonstrated by acting decisively for those refugees who are in desperate need of immediate help.

Of course, Johnson had been “desperate” to visit Ukraine for weeks – as he had been to steal a march on those who were eager to remove him from office. As we know, what Boris wants, Boris gets.

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As Easter approaches, it would appear that it is easier for a greased piglet to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for the desperate to enter the kingdom of the disunited.

Graham Powell

Cirencester

Oil and gas

Much has been said about the need for European countries to stop bankrolling the Russian war machine by buying Russian oil and gas.

Boris Johnson is not shy in demanding other countries comply. But our usage is tiny in comparison to Germany for example, so it’s easy for him to say.

I have a proposition to put to him and to the rest of Europe. What if Europe stopped filling Putin’s coffers immediately and pooled its remaining resources of gas and oil together? It could be divided up so that every country shares the pain equally.

We’d be standing shoulder to shoulder with our European brothers and sisters in a shared solidarity. Putin would be well and truly clobbered and It would have the added bonus of helping to heal the rifts unnecessarily caused by Brexit.

Linda Sharp

Chapel-en-le-Frith

War chest

I hope Putin realises that he faces a bill running into billions to pay for the destruction he has wrought on Ukraine.

To make sure he pays it, the western powers should ring fence the proportion of his foreign currency war chest now frozen to ensure that it can only be spent on restoring the country he has so wantonly destroyed.

It should be seen as the first instalment in paying for his sickening destruction of a proud and heroic nation. He should also realise that with every day of his criminal campaign, that debt gets larger.

Bill Stevenson

Sudbury, Suffolk