Labour’s border plan

SIR – Labour plans, if elected, to create a new border force to control illegal immigration, and to scrap the Rwanda scheme (report, May 10).

Why does everyone keep ignoring the elephant in the room – France? If the French had a more robust team hunting down traffickers and dealing with migrants entering their country – which is their job, after all – then very few, if any, would be able to cross the Channel.

A J C Gorman Ickenham, Middlesex

sir – I am astonished that MI5 is not already identifying the criminal gangs behind the small boats. I thought this was the kind of thing it was for.

Andrew Dyke London N21

SIR – I don’t know how much Huw Pill, the Bank of England’s chief economist, is paid, but most of us didn’t need him to tell us that high levels of immigration are worsening our housing crisis (report, May 10).

It is obvious that, by resolving the immigration issue, we could address the housing issue – yet there seems to be no party or politician with the plan, know-how or will to do it.

Rob Mason Nailsea, Somerset

SIR – Michael McGough (Letters, May 10) asks how many more Tory defections it will take before a general election is called.

In 1997, John Major held on until almost the last possible moment before calling the election, in the misguided belief that an improving economy would save the Tories. But voters had simply had enough then, and they have had enough now.

The sooner we are rid of this rotten, incompetent Conservative Government, the sooner we will be rid of the rotten, incompetent Labour government that will replace it.

David Miller Chigwell, Essex