Asked whether the Home Office had considered suspending the minimum-income requirement for visas during the pandemic, the immigration minister, Kevin Foster, said there were “a number of ways” to meet the £18,600 threshold, and suggested “income from the couple’s investments, property rental or pension may also be taken into account, together with their cash savings” (Non-EU spouses of UK nationals in visa limbo after job cuts and furloughs, 8 June). Beggars belief. What planet is he on?
Lucy Penny
London
• I could not agree more about the joy of Grayson and Philippa Perry’s show (Letters, 8 June). They fill the room with inspiration, humanity, empathy, joy, laughter, creativity and fun – and a real belief in the resurgence of the human spirit.
Cherry Hassett
East Sheen, London
• Andy Bull’s article about the retirement of Sir Geoffrey Boycott (Farewell Boycott, a mess of contradictions whose TMS innings lasted far too long, 9 June) brings to mind Fred Trueman’s probably apocryphal but entirely appropriate comment: “There’s only one head bigger that Geoffrey Boycott’s and that’s Birkenhead.”
Ian Gordon
Folkestone, Kent
• As a Guardian readee, I too was interested in the alligator escapee (Letters, 9 June). When will I see in the sport section mention of footballees, cricketees – and in the racing pages runnees and ridees?
Bill Coop
Cottingham, East Yorkshire
• Establishing a Garden of British Unworthies (Letters, 9 June) is an excellent idea. I suggest the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Ted Dilloway
Soueich, France
