THE SAME OLD STORY

# On July 4, 1892, the voters of West Ham South elected the first working-class MP to the House of Commons – James Keir Hardie – who went on to found the Labour Party.

His campaign slogans were Healthy Homes, Fair Rents and No Landlordism, and he ended his career with a low opinion of Parliament, saying: “More and more, the House of Commons tends to become a putrid mass of corruption.”

How depressing that all these years later he’d reach the same conclusion. Sasha Simic, North London # Why, oh why, do we have to have tennis on BBC1 and BBC2, iPlayer, the red button and God knows where else during the day?

I like tennis, but even I think that this is going overboard. I know others will be pleased but there are thousands that just want to watch the usual daytime TV programmes.

Barbara Jenner, St Leonards-On-Sea, East Sussex

# How immoral for the Government to spend £20,000 to have DUP leader Arlene Foster flown back on an RAF plane to Belfast to resume talks on re-establishing a power sharing executive.

She could have flown with a low-cost airline for less than £100 from Gatwick or Luton at exactly the same speed. What another Tory waste of taxpayers’ cash. P J Huggins, Nottingham