Jonathan Freedland calls Keir Starmer “unexciting perhaps, but capable and decent”. I think “capable and decent” is pretty exciting (He won the votes, now Starmer just needs to win over the people, 5 July).
Wendy Bradford
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
• John Crace’s summing up of Keir Starmer’s speech outside Downing Street – “He may have campaigned in prose. But in his first hour in office he had governed in poetry” – brought me to the verge of tears (The politics sketch, 5 July). Spot-on, John.
Jane Pitts
Sway, Hampshire
