Letter: What else could Boris committee conclude?

The member for New Forest West deems the case against former Prime Minister Boris Johnson not proven (‘Forest MP among seven to vote against parties report’, A&T 23rd June).

It was never the job of the Privileges Committee to prove anything but to reach a conclusion on the balance of probabilities. Didn’t Johnson’s reaction to a “flash” copy of that conclusion tell its own story?

If he didn’t lie to Parliament about the lockdown legality of the get-togethers in Downing Street, what else could the committee conclude? For example, a gathering of more than 30 people in a rectangular room measuring five metres by six metres has been alleged.

If the PM emeritus genuinely believed that the mandatory social-distancing of two metres could therein be maintained, has this Eton and Oxford-educated Classics graduate never heard of Pythagoras?

H. Fletcher

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SIR – I started to ask my Lymington bank this week about changing a current account as I have had a good sum in there of late and saw there was a Flex account offering 5%

I was advised I had do all that on line.

Is this fair?

I hardly ever bother them, but this does seem very discriminatory since they will well know that most seniors will be very wary of using online banking.

Can anything be done about it?

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SIR – If applying for a UK passport, you are required to get your identity confirmed, by someone who has known you for two years.

That 'someone', must be working or a retired ‘professional’.

The list of these so called professionals is quite long and includes airline pilots, funeral directors, MPs, licencees of a public house, travel agents, trade union officials, journalists, etc.

However, it does not include worthy jobs, such as bus driver, postman, train driver, baker, candlestick maker, plumber, housewife/homemaker, etc.

Why are these not recognised? Who would you find most trustworthy: your plumber, vicar or MP?

Isn’t it about time for the passport office to recognise that in

today's changing and rapidly mobile society, they should also recognise the honest 'plebs' among us?

When will this 'snobbish' attitude stop?

A.Turner

Milford

SIR – I would like to thank the person who handed in a £10 note that dropped out of my pocket whilst strawberry picking at Goodalls Fruit, Wallhampton, Lymington.

It has restored my faith in humans knowing there are honest people around.

I would have liked to thank them personally but they did not leave their name.

Thank you again.

Joy Lankford

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