Straight to the POINT

÷ IN ADDITION to being sworn in after being elected, it would be a good idea for new MPs to be weighed. Then we could compare their weight at the beginning and the end of the Parliament. The results could be most revealing.

PETER RODGERS, Brighton, Sussex. ÷ MY DAD says Aston Villa player Peter McParland’s ‘shoulder charge’ on Manchester United goalkeeper Ray Wood in the 1957 FA Cup Final (Mail) was one of the worse challenges he’d ever witnessed and would today be construed as dangerous play.

DAVID MARKS, Salford, Manchester. ÷ IN AN EU membership referendum, will the Government be obliged to provide voting slips in any language other than English?

MATHEW LAWSON, Isle of Man. ÷ IF WE vote to leave the EU, we don’t need its permission (Letters). All we have to do is turn off the money tap and let everyone know that from now on we make our own laws.

BRENDA WILKINSON, Telford, Shropshire. ÷ WHY are the migrants arriving in Europe mostly young men? Have they left their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters to face the horrors of war and ISIS from which they claim they’ve run away?

JEAN TESTRO, Bungay, Suffolk. ÷ WE HAVE zero inflation and the lowest interest rates for years. So why have I just had a letter from British Airways American Express credit cards saying its annual interest rate will increase from 19.9 per cent to 22.9 per cent? Do greedy bankers never learn?

BRIAN COLEMAN, Swanley, Kent. ÷ AS A Christian who objects strongly to Channel 5’s supposed Biblical history, I’d like to know when the channel will be making a series about the Prophet Muhammad.

Mrs M. JAMES, Ipswich.