Life stories

The SNP is letting us all down with Scotland having a falling life expectancy (your report, 26 September). After 11 years of closing the attainment gap, taking money from the “rich” to give to the poor, banning cheap alcohol, leading the way on cutting tobacco and sugar consumption, and cleaning the air via renewable power sources, nothing seems to have worked. Many of these years were spent with

Nicola Sturgeon as health secretary. All of these years were spent under SNP domination. Life expectancy is not the only figure going backwards, economics and education are not doing too well either. What price independence? (DR) GERALD EDWARDS

Broom Road, Glasgow