If he wanted to be re-elected, what Rishi Sunak should have said in that TV interview (The politics sketch, 12 June) when asked “Have you ever gone without something?” is: “No, of course not. I never went hungry or without warm clothes or a room of my own. I went to an excellent school. I had two loving parents. I wanted for nothing a child needs to grow up. It is a national disgrace that thousands of children in this country do not have the same. We must do much more and I propose that we will.”
Helen Muir
Tywyn, Gwynedd
• Please tell Annie Hall (Letters, 9 June) that my late mother Pearl Bradford, a primary school teacher, fitted the bill. She would find something positive – however small – in any piece of work, having been encouraged to do so by a tutor when she was a student at Goldsmiths in the late 1930s.
Mary Hutty
Bath
