Sir, – The British foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt is surely correct in asserting that Britain is being held prisoner (News, October 1st). However, the jailer is not the EU, but the DUP. – Yours, etc,
TIM McCORMICK,
Dublin 6.
Sir, – Perhaps it would be possible to consider a moratorium on provocative comments by Conservative politicians in the run-up to their party conference. While such sloganeering is catnip to true-blue Tories, it is tedious for the rest of us. – Yours, etc,
MARY BYRNE,
Bray, Co Wicklow.
Sir, – Some of us can see through Jeremy Hunt and his pathetic attempt this weekend to put down an early marker to become the next British prime minister. It is astonishing to consider that in 2016 he voted to remain in what he now tells us was a prison not unlike the Soviet Union. Of course he is dead right to describe the EU in such terms. But my whole point is this: has he just has some Damascene conversion? Of course not. – Yours, etc,
DAI WOOSNAM,
Grimsby, UK.