Kenneth Clarke in Laura Kuenssberg’s documentary on Brexit (Last night’s TV, G2, 9 August) commented that “the referendum result was not simply about Europe”. Exactly so. It occurs to me that the success of the leave campaign’s bus message (“We send the EU £350m a week – let’s fund our NHS instead”) had little to do with Europe but indicates the high priority the electorate gives to more spending on the NHS. Our government might do well to recognise this.
Derek Gambell
Bromley, Kent
• No suggestions for an affordable holiday in the UK (Any answers?, Money, 13 August) but a question. Would you have published the sentence “if your useless husband had failed to book anything …” if the words had been “useless wife”? What does the style guide say?
Jennifer Henley
London
