Foreign bodies

Your splash of 2 October refers to Boris Johnson’s “disloyalty”, but surely – whether one was, or is, a Leaver or Remainer – it is Theresa May herself who is now disloyal to her own previous red lines, which were clearly drawn in shifting sands, and to which he and others are trying to maintain some form of allegiance.

However, his previous loose and undiplomatic talk as Foreign Secretary has now been emulated by his successor, Jeremy Hunt. Both appear to have ignored the example of my distant cousin WS “Shakespeare” Morrison, Speaker of the House of Commons in the 1950s and later Viscount Dunrossil of Vallaquie, who apparently lost any chance of becoming Foreign Secretary after he allegedly said that “foreign affairs are fine apart from the foreigners”.

JOHN BIRKETT Horseleys Park, St Andrews, Fife