Penny Mordaunt’s fairytale jibe: the tooth hurts

‘If the wolf had been reliant on NHS dentistry under this government, Little Red Riding Hood would have had little to fear.’ Photograph: Roger-Viollet/REX Shutterstock

Penny Mordaunt chose an unfortunate metaphor in referring to the Big Bad Wolf’s dentures in her attack on Labour’s supposed duplicity on the NHS (Politics live, 2 May). If the wolf had been reliant on NHS dentistry under this government, Little Red Riding Hood would have had little to fear.
John Kelly
Little Raveley, Cambridgeshire

• In 1969, I too made my own wedding dress (A moment that changed me: I made my own wedding dress – and learned to embrace imperfection, 1 May). This was a simpler task than for your writer – in those days if you bought the fabric and pattern from the department store Copland & Lye in Glasgow, they would measure you and cut out the pattern for you, removing the necessity to, in my case, crawl about the living room floor, struggling with yards of fabric.
Anne Buchanan
Hamilton, South Lanarkshire