Giving low-income families free heat pumps (Report, 18 October) sounds like a great idea. However, I suspect that the majority of low-income families live in rented accommodation, so the only people to really benefit from this giveaway would be the landlords. What’s to stop their next step being to evict these low-income families, increase the rent for the their newly enhanced properties and pocket the extra money?
Peter L Hepworth
Leigh-on-Sea, Essex
• What does despair look like? Our political leaders using the word “win” when there can be no winners. What does hope look like? The picture of 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz shaking hands with one of her Hamas captors at the moment of her release as she says “shalom”, the Hebrew word for peace (Report, 24 October).
Cynthia Gallaway
Twickenham, London
