Sturgeon’s motives

SIR – Although I think Rishi Sunak was right to block Nicola Sturgeon’s Gender Recognition Reform Bill (report, January 17), I believe Ms Sturgeon has achieved her true aim.

She can now claim that the UK Government has ridden roughshod over Scotland. Hopefully, most Scottish people – who, I believe, are opposed to this Bill – will see her true intentions. John Simpson

Kirriemuir, Angus

SIR – The reaction of Nicola Sturgeon to the Government’s veto of her Bill – that it would be the “first of many” – was ridiculous.

Such an order cannot be made any time the Government feels like it, but only if a Bill would be incompatible with international obligations or it changes the law so as to adversely affect the operation of the law. Like everything, the process is subject to judicial review.

Robert Edwards

Hornchurch, Essex

SIR – By placing gender change in the media spotlight Nicola Sturgeon is undermining the health of our children – not just 16-year-olds but also younger ones, who could begin to question their own gender.

This is a bad law rejected by the vast majority of Scots. Well done to the Government for opposing it. William Loneskie

Oxton, Berwickshire

SIR – Nicola Sturgeon behaves as if she were a prime minister. She is not. In time she will prove a brief blip in history, but Scotland will remain a valued and much-loved part of Britain. Camilla Coats-carr