Austerity architect George Osborne is in no position to lecture Liz Truss

‘It’s as if a person who connived with arsonists is whining about a fellow pyromaniac chucking petrol on the remaining embers,’ says Amanda Baker. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

George Osborne, the chancellor who enthusiastically swung the wrecking ball of Tory austerity, is complaining that Liz Truss’s damaging policies may wipe out the Conservative party (Liz Truss on verge of major U-turn on real-terms benefits cut, 9 October). It’s as if a person who connived with arsonists is whining about a fellow pyromaniac chucking petrol on the remaining embers.
Amanda Baker
Edinburgh

• Dominic Norman-Taylor is on to a loser in wanting to express the size of an American (gridiron) football pitch in terms of a British (soccer) one (Letters, 10 October). Whereas the former is fixed, the latter is variable, with quite a wide range. Better to think of it as 17 tennis courts.
Michael Bulley
Chalon-sur-Saône, France