It’s beginning to look as if the Tories may elect as their leader Robert Jenrick (Report, 5 September), a man who ordered the painting over of cartoon characters in a children’s immigration reception building as they were “too welcoming”. If anything sums up the performative cruelty of the last government, it must be that simple little fact. We should be reminded of it every day.
Nigel Gann
Lichfield District City of Sanctuary
• If TV, radio and newspaper journalists can read, digest and report the findings of the Grenfell inquiry within 24 hours, why will it take the Metropolitan police 18 months to do the same (Justice for Grenfell deaths may not come this decade, warns former chief prosecutor, 5 September)?
Mick Beeby
Bristol
