I am bemused and dumbfounded that the candidates striving to become the next prime minister (Report, 29 May) believe they can individually unite the country. I suggest they start in their own backyard. The parliamentary Conservative party is riven with division – and if they are unable to present a united front, how do they imagine they can unite the citizens of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland?
Helen Forster
Longniddry, East Lothian
• With regard to the Tory candidates for prime minister, clearly free markets don’t always create quality.
Jonathan Stanley
Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria
• Another sad response to a question (Gove’s legacy and his No 10 destiny, Letters, 28 May) happened almost two centuries ago in Victorian fiction. When Mr Gradgrind asked Bitzer in Hard Times, “Have you a heart?”, he replied: “The circulation couldn’t be carried on without one.” And so the gradgrindery in education continues! What the Dickens is going on?
Hilary Brown
Kincraig, Inverness-shire
• Typical Guardian! In Tuesday’s paper you give the result of the men’s race in the Gloucester cheese rolling competition, but the photograph alongside it is of the women’s race!
Angus MacIntosh
Burley in Wharfedale, West Yorkshire
• How to avoid summer menswear mistakes (Style, G2, 29 May)? Start by not spending £70 on a white T-shirt.
Colin Ankerson
London
• When will the Guardian supplement on the “Museums and attractions of Mulhouse” be available (Letters, passim)?
Bernard Watson
London
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