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The Guardian - UK
Politics

How to call out our pantomime ex-PM

Former prime minister Liz Truss on stage in Beccles, Suffolk
Former prime minister Liz Truss is ambushed by a banner from the Led By Donkeys campaign group while on stage in Beccles, Suffolk. Photograph: Led By Donkeys/Reuters

At least Liz Truss got her letter in just before the end of the pantomime season (Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy, 9 January). All together now: “Oh yes you did!”
Chris Garratt
Sherwood, Nottingham

Revealing photo of former presidents and wives on your front page (10 January) with all hands placed on hearts except for Donald Trump’s. Difficulty in locating it perhaps?
Tom Brown
Gore End, Newbury

• What kind of commander in chief announces invasion plans in advance? (Why is Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland?, 8 January).
Harold Mozley
York

• No one has mentioned the crowning glory of Kent county council’s 1960s school dinners: gypsy tart, filled with a glorious mixture of evaporated milk whisked with muscovado sugar and baked (Letters, 9 January). It’s a wonder we’ve got any teeth left.
Vivien Bailey
St Albans, Hertfordshire

• I suspect the recapture of the two pairs of lynx in Scotland may have involved little more than opening a tin of cat food and making ch ch ch noises (Fears of ‘rogue rewilding’ in Scottish Highlands after further lynx sightings, 10 January).
John Rushton
Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire

• Thank goodness for a jazz album of the month review (10 January), and a five-star one at that; I was starting to rely on the obituary pages for my jazz fix.
Frank Haines
Devoran, Cornwall

• Have an opinion on anything you’ve read in the Guardian today? Please email us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our letters section.

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