It appears that successive governments are able only to formulate key policies in the form of three-word phrases, usually absent of an executive subject. While I welcome the shift in focus represented by the switch from boats to gangs, it is surely evident that this is still only addressing the symptom, not the cause. Most of those arriving in small boats have come from countries either torn by ongoing conflict or ravaged by past conflict. To use the idiom of government, we need to stop the cause, stop the wars.
Sarah Mulholland
Goldsithney, Cornwall
• Surely the fact that “More than 50,000 people have crossed Channel in small boats since Labour took power” (12 August) must show that the country is worth living in?
Helen Keating
Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway
