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We had an interesting letter from George Ross of Scone (PA, June 19) attacking Nicola Sturgeon.

According to him, “she flits in every day”, gives “... a tedious monotone ... at some length”, and “It makes people reach for the off button”.

The off button, Mr Ross? Doesn’t sound like it in your case.

What we are actually getting is our national leader acting like a leader. She is spelling things out to ensure everybody knows what has happened, is happening and will happen as far as she is able too.

She has been accompanied by medical, nursing, policing and economic specialists – and with some of her ministers. It is her job in a national emergency to be front and centre and that is what she is doing.

This is in contrast to the remote Bringlish government where leadership has been missing since the last all clear back in ’45.

The one who should be leading the leaders down south – a certain Boris Johnson – seems to live by that old motto: “When the going gets tough, the toff gets going”. Instead of leading, he makes guest appearances about once a week, leaving the other days to be taken up by various ministers from the foreign office, home office, transport department and even, occasionally, by Matt Hancock, the health secretary.

When he does appear, instead of clear and cohesive statements we are given “ums” and “ers” and some other sounds which seems to suggest that he is doing a copy of a silverback gorilla standing in a tropical downpour, doing a slow motion impression of Elvis Presley live at Las Vegas.

Feel free to use the off button, Mr Ross, the London Tories have. Thomas R Burgess St Catherine’s Square

Perth