My husband and I had reason to be grateful for English Heritage’s refusal to lend Vermeer’s The Guitar Player to the blockbuster exhibition in Amsterdam (Report, 25 June). Tickets for the Rijksmuseum had proved impossible to obtain, but on visiting Kenwood House in London, we were able to see this stunning painting at no cost.
Joyce M Boyd
Edinburgh
• Tom Carr suggests a 30-year mortgage (Letters, 26 June). The local authority I worked for in the 1960s lent money to people purchasing houses at a fixed rate for up to 30 years. Borrowing was restricted to twice earnings and defaulting was unheard of.
Jenny Haynes
Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire
• John Dunn calls for the establishment of a single-issue party along the lines of Ukip to press the case for reversing Brexit (Letters, 27 June). Such a party, the Rejoin EU party, already exists. We finished third in Golders Green last February, and will be standing at the forthcoming Uxbridge byelection.
Brendan Donnelly and Jim Newell
Leader and deputy leader, Rejoin EU
• Daniel Owen’s letter on tactical voting (25 June) reminded me that in St Ives in 2019, the Tory got in, while Labour, Lib Dem and Green, taken together, got 238 more votes. Cornwall now has Tory MPs in all six constituencies. If Labour voters and Green voters voted Lib Dem in St Ives, and Lib Dem voters voted Labour in Camborne and Redruth, two Tories would lose their seats.
John Richards
Oxford
• Can I end the letters on funeral songs (27 June) with Bobby Bland’s This Time I’m Gone for Good?
John Warburton
Edinburgh
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