Perhaps only Peter Mandelson could be shockingly candid and shamelessly duplicitous in the same memorable sentence: “We are intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich as long as they pay their taxes” (Report, 2 February). And perhaps the only virtue of the incorrigible is that they often supply – unwittingly – their own excruciating epitaphs.
Paul McGilchrist
Cromer, Norfolk
• In 2017, Peter Mandelson said of the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn: “I work every single day in some small way to bring forward the end of his tenure in office.” That should have been enough to expel him from Labour, which would have saved a lot of trouble for the party now.
David Sang
Brighton
