Straight to the POINT

WHY shouldn’t the Big Six energy companies pay pensioners their winter fuel allowance?

GODFREY H. HOLMES, Withernsea, E. Yorks.

CAN Theresa May be relied on? Actress Sybil Thorndike said: ‘I was brought up in a clergyman’s household, so I am a first-class liar.’ So I wonder . . .

ROBERT J. EVANS, Birmingham.

MRS MAY’S voice is quite shrill when she gets emotional. She should try some voice training, as Margaret Thatcher did to great effect.

CHRIS SCOTT-BARRETT, London E2.

THERESA MAY is accused of hiding away. I wish she would take the other party leaders with her so we can all get some peace.

GORDON MCDONALD, Glasgow.

WHAT made the Met Police decide to investigate the case of a missing child in sunny Portugal rather than investigate the hundreds of cases of missing persons in chilly London?

JOHN WARREN, Wolverhampton.

THE monthly Brussels-Strasbourg switch of the European Parliament costs around £100 million a year. Most EU countries want it to stop, but the French won’t agree. I suggest France picks up the full tab.

E. HEYWOOD, Haddenham, Cambs.

FURTHER to a chef’s pronunciation of ‘chorizo’ (Mail), most of them can’t distinguish between ‘marinate’ and ‘marinade’.

MIKE PARKINSON, address supplied.