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The Guardian - UK
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Letters

Leave voters finally get their wish at Dover

Cars queue at the check-in at the port of Dover in Kent on Saturday.
Freedom of movement? Cars queue at Dover in Kent on Saturday. Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA

To all the leave voters queueing at Dover (Report, 24 July): you wanted an end to freedom of movement – well, you’ve got it.
Wal Callaby
Ipswich

• Liz Truss has declared she wants to reward hard work. Will these rewards reach hardworking public sector workers, care workers, and cleaners before or after she removes workers’ rights in the bonfire of EU legislation (Report, 22 July)?
Rosemary Jenkins
London

• Re your article (PhD students told to consider selling Avon products to make ends meet, 20 July), I don’t see the problem, frankly. This is a world in which Leicester University provides a “sex work toolkit” so students can sell their bodies “safely”. Sadly, the university fails to offer a complete range of support for impecunious students. It could include a “shoplifters’ checklist”, a “drug-pushers’ handbook” or even a “template for cheating in exams”.
Sally Bigwood
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

• As my boat is made from British steel, I can assure David Harper (Letters, 21 July) that there has been no sign of buckling in the heatwave. But attempting to sleep inside it has made me reconsider my wish to be cremated when the time comes.
Ian Grieve
Gordon Bennett, Llangollen canal

• Defibrillators might be rarely used to save a pupil’s life statistically, but school staff might well appreciate one being on hand in an emergency (Letters, 20 July).
Lesley Evans
Cupar, Fife

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