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Defiant SNP MP Margaret Ferrier is refusing to step down for deliberately breaking Covid travel rules, saying she “panicked”.

Her panic might be shared by the many people she travelled with on her way back to Scotland in the full knowledge she’d tested positive for Covid-19. Her pure arrogance should be enough to make her constituents demand a by-election. Dennis Grattan, Aberdeen

The Tories are still going on about building 40 brand new state-of-the-art hospitals. It’s not going to happen.

A chronic shortage of nurses and a refusal to give our NHS heroes a decent pay rise means there is more likelihood of hospitals closing than new ones being built. Shaun Shute, Gloucester